Consider the following statements about the railways in India and select the true ones. Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1.The pioneer of the railways in India was Rowland Macdonald Stephenson, who formed a company in England
2.In 1841 an English civil engineer Joseph Locke discussed the prospects of railways from Calcutta to Delhi
3.Stephenson thought of a line from Calcutta to Mirzapur, Benaras, Allahabad and beyond
4.The line from Bombay to Thana, opened in 1853, was the first railway ever completed in Asia
5.Dalhousie issued his great railway minute on 20 April 1853 describing the military and commercial advantages of railways
A1, 3, 4 and 5 only
B1, 2, 3 and 5 only
C2, 4 and 5 only
D1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
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