India's first freight train is operated in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roorkee" id="mweg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Roorkee">Roorkee</a>, to transport material for the construction of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganges_Canal" id="mwew" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ganges Canal">Ganges Canal</a>.<sup about="#mwt78" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"}}' id="cite_ref-13" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_22#cite_note-13" id="mwfA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 13;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwfQ">[13]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"><cite about="#mwt75" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFMondalSamanta2021">Mondal, Bhaswati; Samanta, Gopa (2021). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=nTw6EAAAQBAJ" id="mwB8s" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB8w">Mobilities in India: The Experience of Suburban Rail Commuting</i></a>. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. p.<span id="mwB80" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>37. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB84" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB88" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9783030783495" id="mwB9A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9783030783495"><bdi id="mwB9E">9783030783495</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt75" class="Z3988" id="mwB9I" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Mobilities+in+India%3A+The+Experience+of+Suburban+Rail+Commuting&amp;rft.place=Cham%2C+Switzerland&amp;rft.pages=37&amp;rft.pub=Springer&amp;rft.date=2021&amp;rft.isbn=9783030783495&amp;rft.aulast=Mondal&amp;rft.aufirst=Bhaswati&amp;rft.au=Samanta%2C+Gopa&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DnTw6EAAAQBAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+22"></span></span>