| Sl. No |
Indian Railway Zones Name |
Abbr. |
Indian Railway Zones Date Established |
Indian Railway Zones Headquarters |
Indian Railway Zones Divisions |
| 1. |
Northern Railway |
NR |
April 14, 1952 |
Delhi |
Delhi, Ambala, Firozpur, Lucknow, Moradabad |
| 2. |
North Eastern Railway |
NER |
1952 |
Gorakhpur |
Izzatnagar, Lucknow, Varanasi |
| 3. |
Northeast Frontier Railway |
NFR |
1958 |
Guwahati |
Alipurduar, Katihar, Lumding, Rangia, Tinsukia |
| 4. |
Eastern Railway |
ER |
April, 1952 |
Kolkata |
Howrah, Sealdah, Asansol, Malda |
| 5. |
South Eastern Railway |
SER |
1955 |
Kolkata |
Adra, Chakradharpur, Kharagpur, Ranchi |
| 6. |
South Central Railway |
SCR |
October 2, 1966 |
Secunderabad |
Secunderabad, Hyderabad, Guntakal, Guntur, Nanded, Vijayawada |
| 7. |
Southern Railway |
SR |
April 14, 1951 |
Chennai |
Chennai, Madurai, Palakkad, Tiruchchirapalli, Thiruvanathapuram, Salem |
| 8. |
Central Railway |
CR |
November 5, 1951 |
Mumbai |
Mumbai, Bhusawal, Pune, Solapur, Nagpur |
| 9. |
Western Railway |
WR |
November 5, 1951 |
Mumbai |
Mumbai Central, Baroda, Ratlam, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Bhavnagar |
| 10. |
South Western Railway |
SWR |
April 1, 2003 |
Hubli |
Hubli, Bangalore, Mysore |
| 11. |
North Western Railway |
NWR |
October 1, 2002 |
Jaipur |
Jaipur, Ajmer, Bikaner, Jodhpur |
| 12. |
West Central Railway |
WCR |
April 1, 2003 |
Jabalpur |
Jabalpur, Bhopal, Kota |
| 13. |
North Central Railway |
NCR |
April 1, 2003 |
Allahabad |
Allahabad, Agra, Jhansi |
| 14. |
South East Central Railway |
SECR |
April 1, 2003 |
Bilaspur, CG |
Bilaspur, Raipur, Nagpur |
| 15. |
East Coast Railway |
ECoR |
April 1, 2003 |
Bhubaneswar |
Khurda Road, Sambalpur, Visakhapatnam |
| 16. |
East Central Railway |
ECR |
October 1, 2002 |
Hajipur |
Danapur, Dhanbad, Mughalsarai, Samastipur, Sonpur |
| 17. |
Konkan Railway† |
KR |
January 26, 1998 |
Navi Mumbai |
Ratnagiri, karwar |
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