Indian Railway zones with Headquarters & Divisions
✸ Railways are first introduced to india in the year 1853 from Mumbai to Thane over a distance of 34km.
✸ Indian Railways is the 4th Largest Railway Network in the World and Largest in Asian Continent
✸ The longest Railway Station in India is Gorakhpur Railway Station, Uttar Pradesh (1.366.33m)
✸ Vivek Express is the Longest Train in India connecting Dibrugarh & Kanyakumari named 15905/15906
✸ Indian Railways is the Multi Gauge, multi-traction system covering Broad Gauge(1676 mm), Meter Gauge(1000mm), Narrow Gauge(762/610mm) with around 64600km route.
✸ Railways regonised by UNESCO are Darjeeling Himalayan Railways, Chhatrapati Shivaji terminus, Kalka-Shimla Railways.
Important Production Units of Indian Railways:-
✦ Chittaranjan Locomotive Works – Chittaranjan, West Bengal
✦ Diesel Locomotive Works – Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
✦ Diesel Loco modernisation works – Patiala, Punjab
✦ Integral Coach Factory – Chennai, Tamilnadu
✦ Rail Coach Factory – Kapurthala, Punjab
✦ Rail Wheel Factory – Bangalore, Karnataka
Railway Zones along with Headquarter & their Divisions
✸ Indian Railways has 18 Railway Zones including newly formed South Coast Railway.
| Railway zone | Headquarter | Divisions |
|---|---|---|
| Central Railway | Mumbai | Mumbai, Nagpur, Bhusawal, Pune, Sholapur |
| Eastern Railway | Kolkatta | Howrah-1, Howrah-2, Sealdah, Malda, Asansol, Chitranjan |
| East Central Railway | Hajipur | Danapur, Mugalsarai, Dhanbad, Sonpur, Samastipur |
| East Coast Railway | Bhubaneshwar | Khudra Road, Waltair, Sambhalpur |
| Northern Railway | Baroda House, New Delhi | Delhi-1, Delhi-2, Ambala, Moradabad, Lucknow, Firozpur |
| North Central Railway | Allahabad | Allahabad, Jhansi, Agra |
| North Eastern Railway | Gorakhpur | Izzatnagar, Lucknow, Varanasi, DLW |
| North Frontier Railway | Maligaon, Guwahati | Katihar, Alipurduar, Rangjiya, Lumding, Tinsukhia |
| North Western Railway | Jaipur | Jaipur, Jodhpur, Bikaner, Ajmer |
| Southern Railway | Chennai | Chennai, Madurai, Palghat, Trichy, Trivendrum |
| South Central Railway | Secunderabad | Srcunderabad, Hyderabad, Guntakal, Vijaywada, Nanded |
| South Eastern Railway | Garden Reach, Kolkatta | Kharagpur, Adra, Chakradhapur, Ranchi, Shalimar |
| South East Central Railway | Bilaspur | Bilaspur, Nagpur, Raipur |
| South Western Railway | Hubli | Bangalore, Mysore, Hubli, RWF/YNK |
| Western Railway | Mumbai CST | BCT, Vadodara, Ahmedabad, Ratlam, Rajkot, Bhavnagar |
| West Central Railway | Jabalpur | Jabalpur, Bhopal, Kota |
| Kolkata Metro | Kolkata | Kolkata Metro |
| South Coast Railway | Vishakapatnam | Waltair (Vishakapatnam), Vijayawada, Guntur, Guntakal |
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