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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