NEW DELHI : Perhaps for the first time in its 167-year-long history, the Railways has refunded more than it has earned from ticket bookings, registering a negative passenger segment revenue of ₹1,066 crore in the COVID-19-hit first quarter of 2020-21, an RTI query has found.The freight earnings, however, during the period managed to hold ground, according to the RTI reply provided by the Railways to Chandra Shekhar Gaur, a Madhya Pradesh-based activist.The first three months of this financial year, when the Railways had to suspend all its regular passenger services due to the coronavirus travel restrictions, the national transporter’s revenue was in the negative -- ₹531.12 crore in April, ₹145.24 crore in May and ₹390.6 in June (all in.