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May 20, 2014

Railway Zones of India and Their Divisions

The journey of railways in Indian sub-continent started modestly in 1853 with 34 kilometers (kms). Iron wheels rolled on rails on 16th April, 1853, where the first-ever train, with a capital of Rs 3.8 million, carrying 400 people in 14 carriages, covered the 21-mile distance in about 75 minutes from Bombay to Thane.

The Railway Board in 1950 decided for the regrouping of the Indian Railways into six zonal systems, namely, the Northern, the North Eastern, the Southern, the Central, the Eastern and the Western Railways. By the year 1958, there were eight zones on Indian Railways. The formation of South Central Railway in 1966 as the ninth zone, in order to improve the services for the southern parts of India. At Present there are 17  railway zone.

The Metro Railway of Kolkata, the country's became the 17th Railway Zone in 2010. It was on this day in 1972 when the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had laid the foundation stone for the Kolkata Metro which initially connected Dum Dum in the north to Tollygunje in the South.
S No.
Name of the Railway Zone
Zonal Headquarter
  Division
1
Central Railway
Mumbai
1) Mumbai 
2) Nagpur 
3) Bhusawal 
4) Pune 
5) Sholapur 
2
Eastern Railway
Kolkata
1) Howrah-I 
2) Howrah-II 
3) Sealdah 
4) Malda 
5) Asansol 
6) Chitaranjan

3
East Central Railway
Hajipur
1) Danapur 
2) Mugalsarai 
3) Dhanbad 
4) Sonpur 
5) Samastipur
4
East Coast Railway
Bhubaneshwar
1) Khurda Road
2) Waltair 
3) Sambhalpur
5
Northern Railway
Baroda House, New Delhi
1) Delhi-I 
2) Delhi-II 
3) Ambala 
4) Moradabad 
5) Lucknow 
6) Firozpur
6
North Central  Railway
Allahabad
1) Allahabad 
2) Jhansi 
3) Agra
7
North Eastern  Railway
Gorakhpur
1) Izzatnagar 
2) Lucknow 
3) Varanasi
8
North Frontier  Railway
Maligaon, Guwahati
1) Katihar 
2) Alipurduar 
3) Rangiya 
4) Lumding 
5) Tinsukhia
9
North Western Railway
Jaipur
1) Jaipur 
2) Jodhpur 
3) Bikaner 
4) Ajmer
10
Southern  Railway
Chennai
1) Chennai
2) Madurai 
3) Palghat 
4) Trichy 
5) Trivendrum
11
South Central Railway
Secunderabad
1) Secunderabad 
2) Hyderabad 
3) Guntakal 
4) Vijaywada 
5) Nanded
12
South Eastern Railway
Garden Reach, Kolkata
1) Kharagpur 
2) Adra 
3) Chakradharpur 
4) Ranchi 
5) Shalimar
13
South East Central  Railway
Bilaspur
1) Bilaspur 
2) Nagpur 
3) Raipur
14
South Western Railway
Hubli
1) Bangalore 
2) Mysore 
3) Hubli 
4) FA/F/YNK
15
Western Railway
Mumbai CST
1) BCT 
2) Vadodara 
3) Ahemdabad 
4) Ratlam 
5) Rajkot 
6) Bhavnagar
16
West Central Railway
Jabalpur
1) Jabalpur 
2) Bhopal 
3) Kota
17
Kolkata Metro Railway
Kolkata
Kolkata metropolitan area, South 24 Parganas and North 24 Parganas.


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