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Railway zones

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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.