TRAIN PROBLEM
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1. Two goods train each 600 m long, are running in completely passes a man sitting in the slower train in
opposite directions on parallel tracks. Their speeds are 36 seconds. What is the length of the faster train?
50 km/hr and 30 km/hr respectively. Find the time (a) 100 m (b) 150 m
taken by the faster train to pass the slower one ? (c) 300 m (d) 200 m
(a) 12 sec (b) 54 sec 11. A train 300m long takes 30s to cross a man running at a
(c) 48 sec (d) 60 sec speed of 8 kmph in the direction same to that of train.
2. Two trains 200 meters and 150 meters in length are What is the speed of the train?
running towards same direction, one at the rate 75 (a) 28 kmph (b) 36 kmph
km/hr and another at 40 km/hr in how many seconds (c) 44 kmph
will they be clear of each other? (d) can’t be determined
(a) 18 seconds (b) 24 seconds 12. A train crosses a man going along the railway track at 6
(c) 30 seconds (d) 36 seconds km/hr, the man could see the train upto 2 min and
3. Train – P crosses a stationary train – Q in 60 seconds then find the speed of the train if at the time of
and a pole in 20 seconds with the same speed. The disappearance the distance between train to man was
length of the train – P is 200 meters. What is the length 1.2 km while length of the train is 300 meter.
of the stationary Train Q? (a) 36 k/h (b) 45 k/h
(a) 360 meters (b) 260 meters (c) 51 k/h (d) 65 k/h
(c) 400 meters 13. A train overtakes two persons who are walking in the
(d) cannot be determined same direction in which the train is going, at the rate of
4. Gourav running at 6 kmph alongside a railway track is 3 kmph and 6 kmph and passes them completely in 9
220 meters ahead of the engine of a 110 meter long and 10 seconds respectively. Find the length of train?
train running at 60 kmph in the same direction. Find (a) 50 m (b) 75 m
the time taken by the train pass the Gourav? (c) 100 m (d) 125 m
(a) 18 sec (b) 16 sec 14. Two trains of length 128 m and 88 m run on parallel
(c) 22 sec (d) 20 sec track. If they run in same direction they cross each
5. A train 250 m long running at 54 kmph takes 50 other in 18 sec but if they are coming from opposite
seconds to cross a bridge. The length of the bridge is? direction they cross each other in 9 sec. Find the speed
(a) 380 m (b) 300 m of faster train.
(c) 500m (d) 425 m (a) 10 m/sec (b) 15 m/sec
6. A train passes a platform in 32 seconds and a man (c) 18 m/sec (d) 20 m/sec
standing on the platform in 18 seconds. If the speed of 15. A train passes 160 m long platform in 46 seconds and a
the train is 54 kmph, what is the length of the boy standing on the platform in 38 seconds. Find the
platform? length of the train?
(a) 200 (b) 210 (a) 300 m (b) 380 m
(c) 220 (d) 230 (c) 760 m (d) 800 m
7. Running with 42 km/hr, a train can cross a platform in 16. A train travelling with constant speed crosses a 240 m
36 sec while it can cross a boy, who is running with 6 long platform in 21 seconds and a 330 m platform in 24
km/hr in same direction, in 12 sec. What is the length seconds. Find the length of the train.
of platform? (a) 350 m (b) 400 m
(a) 100 m (b) 200 m (c) 300 m (d) 390 m
(c) 300 m (d) 400 m 17. A train crosses ‘d’ m platform in 8 seconds and the
8. A 250 meters long train running at the speed of 100 same train crosses ‘2d’ m bridge in 12 seconds. If the
kmph crosses another train running in opposite speed of the train is 54 km/hr, then find the time taken
direction at the speed of 80 kmph in 11 seconds. What by the train to cross a man running in the opposite
is the length of the other train? direction at the speed of 5 m/sec.
(a) 550 meter (b) 350 meter (a) 3 seconds (b) 4 seconds
(c) 300 meter (d) 250 meter (c) 5 seconds (d) 6 seconds
9. A train crosses a man with a speed of 78 km/hr in 12 18. A train, 120 m long, takes 30 seconds to cross a tunnel
sec. In how much time it will cross another train which 480 m long. How much time will the train take to cross
is 100% more longer than it, if the other train is a platform 320 m long?
standing on platform. (a) 22 sec (b) 18 sec
(a) 20 sec (b) 24 sec (c) 24 sec (d) 16 sec
(c) 30 sec (d) 36 sec 19. 2 train can cross a pole in 4 sec and 6 sec respectively.
10. Two trains are running at 55 km/hr and 35 km/hr In how much time will they cross each other if they are
respectively in the same direction. Faster train
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coming from same direction and speed of the train are (a) 12 : 24 pm (b) 1 : 48 pm
in the ratio of 7 : 9 respectively? (c) 1 : 40 pm (d) 12 : 30 pm
(a) 30 sec (b) 40 sec 26. Ratio of speed of two trains ‘A’ and ‘B’ is 3 : 5. Train ‘A’
(c) 41 sec (d) 32 sec leaves Delhi to reach Bangalore at 8 am and after 3
20. Two trains running in opposite directions cross a man hours of starting of train A, train B leaves Bangalore to
standing on the platform in 27 seconds and 17 seconds reach Delhi. If distance between Delhi and Bangalore is
respectively and they cross each other in 23 seconds 980 km and both trains meet at 4 pm, then find speed
while they are running in opposite direction. The ratio of train A.
of their speeds is: (a) 120 km/h (b) 100 km/h
(a) 1 : 3 (b) 3 : 2 (c) 80 km/h (d) 60 km/h
(c) 3 : 4 (d) 4 : 3 27. Two trains M and N start from stations X and Y towards
21. Train A and train B running in opposite direction Y and X respectively. After passing each other, They
crossed a pole respectively in 12 second and 9 second. take 4 hours 48 minutes and 3 hours 20 minutes to
If the length of train A is 20% more than the length of reach Y and X respectively. If train M is moving at 90
train B. Then the ratio of speed of train A to train B is: km/hr, then the speed of the train N is?
(a) 8 : 9 (b) 11 : 12 (a) 108 km/hr (b) 75 km/h
(c) 9 : 8 (d) 9 : 10 (c) 72 km/h (d) 112.5 km/h
22. 2 trains of same length can cross a pole in 10 sec and 28. Two trains , M and N start from stations X and Y
15 sec respectively. In how much time will they cross towards Y and X respectively. After passing each other ,
each other if they are coming from opposite direction? They take 4 hours 48 minutes and 3 hours 20 minutes
(a) 20 sec (b) 12 sec to reach Y and X respectively. If train M is moving at 90
(c) 18 sec (d) 24 sec km/hr, then the speed o the train N is?
23. The ratio of the speed of Two train is 5 : 3. Sum of their (a) 108 km/hr (b) 75 km/hr
length is 540 m. The ratio of time taken to cross an (c) 72 km/hr (d) 112.5 km/hr
Electric pole by train A and B is 3 : 4. What is the 29. A train crosses the “a” meter long platform in 36
difference between the length of two trains? seconds and crosses the man standing in a platform in
(a) 60 m (b) 50 m 12 seconds. If the train crosses the man running in
(c) 70 m (d) 64 m opposite direction at the speed of 18 kmph in 8
24. Two stations A and B are 850 km apart from each seconds, find the value of “a”?
other. One train starts from station A at 5 am and (a) 240 (b) 360
travels towards station B at 62 kmph. Another train (c) 180 (d) 120
starts from station B at 7 am and travels towards 30. Find the time taken by train of length D meters to cross
station A at 59 kmph. At what time will they meet? a platform of 400 meters running at 72 km/hr if the
(a) 12 : 30 pm (b) 1 pm time taken by train of length (D + 400) meters running
(c) 1 : 30 pm (d) 2 pm at speed of 5D/2m/s to cross a pole is the same as that
25. Train A is moving from Jaipur to Secunderabad at the of time taken by train of length (D – 200) meters
speed of 60 km/h and train B is moving from running at D m/s to cross a pole?
Secundeerabad to Jaipur at the speed of 25 m/s. If (a) 30 seconds (b) 45 seconds
both trains start travelling at 11 am and at the time of (c) 50 seconds (d) 54 seconds
meeting faster train cover 54 km more distance than
slower train, then find the time of meeting?
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