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Railway zones [ edit ] For administrative purposes, Indian Railways is divided into sixteen zones. 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.
No.
Name
Abbr.
Headquarters
Date established
Divisions
1.
Northern Railway
NR
Delhi
April 14 , 1952
Delhi , Ambala , Firozpur , Lucknow , Moradabad
2.
North Eastern Railway
NER
Gorakhpur
1952
Izzatnagar , Lucknow , Varanasi
3.
Northeast Frontier Railway
NFR
Maligaon(Guwahati)
1958
Alipurduar , Katihar , Lumding , Rangia , Tinsukia
4.
Eastern Railway
ER
Kolkata
April , 1952
Howrah , Sealdah , Asansol , Malda
5.
South Eastern Railway
SER
Kolkata
1955
Adra , Chakradharpur , Kharagpur , Ranchi
6.
South Central Railway
SCR
Secunderabad
October 2 , 1966
Secunderabad , Hyderabad , Guntakal , Guntur , Nanded , Vijayawada
7.
Southern Railway
SR
Chennai
April 14 , 1951
Chennai , Madurai , Palghat , Tiruchchirapalli , Trivandrum , Salem
8.
Central Railway
CR
Mumbai
November 5 , 1951
Mumbai , Bhusawal , Pune , Solapur , Nagpur
9.
Western Railway
WR
Mumbai
November 5 , 1951
Mumbai Central , Baroda , Ratlam , Ahmedabad , Rajkot , Bhavnagar
10.
South Western Railway
SWR
Hubli
April 1 , 2003
Hubli , Bangalore , Mysore
11.
North Western Railway
NWR
Jaipur
October 1 , 2002
Jaipur , Ajmer , Bikaner , Jodhpur
12.
West Central Railway
WCR
Jabalpur
April 1 , 2003
Jabalpur , Bhopal , Kota
13.
North Central Railway
NCR
Allahabad
April 1 , 2003
Allahabad , Agra , Jhansi
14.
South East Central Railway
SECR
Bilaspur, CG
April 1 , 2003
Bilaspur , Raipur , Nagpur
15.
East Coast Railway
ECoR
Bhubaneswar
April 1 , 2003
Khurda Road , Sambalpur , Visakhapatnam
16.
East Central Railway
ECR
Hajipur
October 1 , 2002
Danapur , Dhanbad , Mughalsarai , Samastipur , Sonpur
17.
Konkan Railway †
KR
Navi Mumbai
January 26 , 1998
18.
Calcutta Metro
†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.
Calcutta Metro is owned and operated by Indian Railways and is considered to have the status of a zonal railway.
