Network
Indian railway network and zones
For administrative purposes, Indian Railways is divided into sixteen zones.
No. |
Name |
Abbr. |
Headquarters |
Date established |
1. |
Northern Railway |
NR |
Delhi |
April 14, 1952 |
2. |
North Eastern Railway |
NER |
Gorakhpur |
1952 |
3. |
Northeast Frontier Railway |
NFR |
Maligaon(Guwahati) |
1958 |
4. |
Eastern Railway |
ER |
Kolkata |
April, 1952 |
5. |
South Eastern Railway |
SER |
Kolkata |
1955, |
6. |
South Central Railway |
SCR |
Secunderabad |
October 2, 1966 |
7. |
SR |
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8. |
CR |
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9. |
WR |
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10. |
SWR |
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11. |
NWR |
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12. |
WCR |
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13. |
NCR |
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14. |
SECR |
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15. |
ECoR |
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16. |
ECR |
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17. |
KR |
Konkan Railway (KR) is constituted as a separately incorporated railway, with its headquarters at Belapur CBD (Navi Mumbai). It comes under the control of the Railway Ministry and the Railway Board.
The Calcutta Metro is owned and operated by Indian Railways, but is not a part of any of the zones. It is administratively considered to have the status of a zonal railway. Each zonal railway is made up of a certain number of divisions, each having a divisional headquarters. There are a total of sixty-seven divisions.
Zonal Railway |
Divisions |
Secunderabad, Hyderabad, Guntakal, Guntur, Nanded, Vijayawada |
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Chennai, Madurai, Palghat, Tiruchchirapalli, Trivandrum, Salem |
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Mumbai Central, Baroda, Ratlam, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Bhavnagar |
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