Railway Zones

Indian Railways is divided into 18 zones, which are further sub-divided into divisions. The number of zones in Indian Railways increased from six to eight in 1951.

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Zone

Abbr.

Route

HQ

Divisions

1

Central Railway

CR

3,905km

Mumbai

Bhusawal, Mumbai Central, Pune, Solapur

2

East Central Railway

ECR

3,628km

Hajipur

Danapur, Dhanbad, Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, Samastipur, Sonpur

3

East Coast Railway

ECoR

2,572km

Bhubaneswar

Khurda Road, Sambalpur, Waltair (Rayagada)

4

Eastern Railway

ER

2,414km

Kolkata

Asansol, Howrah, Malda, Sealdah

5

KR

736km

Navi Mumbai

6

North Central Railway

NCR

3,151km

Allahabad

Agra, Prayagraj, Virangana Lakshmibai Jhansi

7

North Eastern Railway

NER

3,667km

Gorakhpur

Izzatnagar, Varanasi

8

North Western Railway

NWR

5,459km

Jaipur

Ajmer, Bikaner, Jaipur, Jodhpur

9

Northeast Frontier Railway

NFR

3,907km

Guwahati

Alipurduar, Katihar, Lumding, Rangiya, Tinsukia

10

Northern Railway

NR

6,968km

Delhi

Ambala, Delhi, Firozpur, Lucknow North, Moradabad

11

South Central Railway

SCR

5,803km

Secunderabad

Hyderabad, Nanded, Secunderabad

12

South Coast Railway

SCoR

Vishakapatnam

Guntakal, Guntur, Vijayawada, Waltair

13

South East Central Railway

SECR

2,447km

Bilaspur

Bilaspur, Nagpur (Bamhni), Raipur

14

South Eastern Railway

SER

2,631km

Kolkata

Adra, Chakradharpur, Kharagpur, Ranchi

15

South Western Railway

SWR

3,177km

Hubli

Bangalore, Mysore, SSS Hubballi

16

Southern Railway

SR

6,844km

Chennai

Madurai, MGR Chennai, Palakkad, Salem, Thiruvananthapuram, Tiruchirappalli

17

West Central Railway

WCR

2,965km

Jabalpur

Bhopal, Jabalpur, Kota

18

Western Railway

WR

6,182km

Mumbai

Ahmedabad, Bhavnagar, Mumbai Western, Rajkot, Ratlam, Vadodara