Zone and Division of Indian Railway

Zone and Division of Indian Railways

The Indian Railway operations are currently divided into 17 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	Headquarters	Date established	Divisions
01.	Northern Railway(NR)	Delhi	April 14, 1952	Delhi, Ambala, Firozpur, Lucknow, Moradabad
02.	North Eastern Railway (NER)	Gorakhpur	1952	Izzatnagar, Lucknow, Varanasi
03.	Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR)	Maligaon(Guwahati)	1958	Alipurduar, Katihar, Lumding, Rangia, Tinsukia
04.	Eastern Railway (ER)	Kolkata	April, 1952	Howrah, Sealdah, Asansol, Malda
05.	South Eastern Railway(SER)	Kolkata	1955	Adra, Chakradharpur, Kharagpur, Ranchi
06.	South Central Railway (SCR)	Secunderabad	October 2, 1966	Secunderabad, Hyderabad, Guntakal, Guntur, Nanded, Vijayawada
07.	Southern Railway (SR)	Chennai	April 14, 1951	Chennai, Madurai, Palghat, Tiruchchirapalli, Trivandrum
08.	Central Railway (CR)	Mumbai	November 5, 1951	Mumbai, Bhusawal, Pune, Solapur
09.	Western Railway (WR)	Mumbai	November 5, 1951	Mumbai, Baroda, Ratlam, Indore, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Bhavnagar
10.	South Western Railway (SWR)	Hubli	April 1, 2003	Hubli, Bangalore, Mysore
11.	North Western Railway (NWR)	Jaipur	Oct 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	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	Oct 1, 2002	Danapur, Dhanbad, Mughalsarai, Samastipur, Sonpur
17.	Konkan Railway (KR)	Navi Mumbai	Jan 26, 1998

Kolkata metro is also a division of Indian Railways headquartered in Park Street, Kolkata making Kolkata the city with most number of Zonal Headquarters of Indian Railways in India