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Government of India
Ministry of Railways
21-July-2017 16:06 IST
Railway Zones and Divisions in The Country

At present there are 17 Railway Zones and 68 Divisions in the country. The details are given below:

S.NO.

     RAILWAY ZONES

Headquarter

 

          DIVISIONS

 

1.

Central Railway

Mumbai

Mumbai (CST), Bhusawal, Nagpur, Solapur, Pune.

2.

Eastern Railway

Kolkata

Asansol, Howrah, Malda, Sealdah.

3.

East Central Railway

Hajipur

Danapur,Dhanbad,Mughalsarai, Samastipur,Sonpur.

4.

East Coast Railway

Bhubaneswar

Khurda Road, Sambalpur, Waltair.

5.

Northern Railway

New Delhi

Ambala, Delhi, Lucknow, Moradabad, Ferozpur.

6.

North Central Railway

Allahabad

Allahabad, Agra, Jhansi.

7.

North Eastern Railway

Gorakhpur

Lucknow,Izzatnager,Varanasi.

8.

Northeast Frontier Railway

Guwahati

Katihar, Alipurduar, Rangiya, Lumding, Tinsukia.

9.

North Western Railway

Jaipur

Ajmer, Bikaner, Jaipur, Jodhpur.

10.

Southern  Railway

Chennai

Chennai, Madurai, Palghat, Trichy, Trivandrum, Salem.

11.

South Central Railway

Secunderabad

Guntakal, Guntur, Hyderabad, Nanded,Secunderabad,Vijayawada.

12.

South Eastern Railway

Kolkata

Adra,Chakradharpur, Kharagpur, Ranchi.

13.

South East Central Railway

Bilaspur

Bilaspur, Nagpur, Raipur

14.

South Western Railway

Hubli

Bangalore, Hubli, Mysore

15.

Western Railway

Mumbai

Mumbai(Central),Vadodara, Ratlam,Ahmedabad,Rajkot, Bhavnagar.

16.

West  Central  Railway

Jabalpur

Bhopal, Jabalpur, Kota.

17.

Metro Railway 

Kolkata

Not applicable.

 

Zonal and Divisional boundaries are decided by operational/administrative requirements and not on considerations of State boundaries and as such there are some States which have railway lines under jurisdictional control of more than one Zonal Railway/Division.                                                                                                                                             

 

This Press Release is based on the information given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri Rajen Gohain in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha on 21.07.2017 (Friday).

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