For administrative purposes, Indian Railways is divided into sixteen zones. Each zonal railway is made up of a certain number of divisions, each having a divisional headquarters. There are a total of sixty-seven divisions.
No.
|
Name
|
Abbr.
|
Headquarters
|
Date established
|
Divisions
|
1.
|
Northern Railway
|
NR
|
Delhi
|
April 14, 1952
|
Delhi, Ambala, Firozpur, Lucknow, Moradabad
|
2.
|
North Eastern Railway
|
NER
|
Gorakhpur
|
1952
|
Izzatnagar, Lucknow, Varanasi
|
3.
|
Northeast Frontier Railway
|
NFR
|
Maligaon(Guwahati)
|
1958
|
Alipurduar, Katihar, Lumding, Rangia, Tinsukia
|
4.
|
Eastern Railway
|
ER
|
Kolkata
|
April, 1952
|
Howrah, Sealdah, Asansol, Malda
|
5.
|
South Eastern Railway
|
SER
|
Kolkata
|
1955
|
Adra, Chakradharpur, Kharagpur, Ranchi
|
6.
|
South Central Railway
|
SCR
|
Secunderabad
|
October 2, 1966
|
Secunderabad, Hyderabad, Guntakal, Guntur, Nanded, Vijayawada
|
7.
|
Southern Railway
|
SR
|
Chennai
|
April 14, 1951
|
Chennai, Madurai, Palghat, Tiruchchirapalli, Trivandrum, Salem
|
8.
|
Central Railway
|
CR
|
Mumbai
|
November 5, 1951
|
Mumbai, Bhusawal, Pune, Solapur, Nagpur
|
9.
|
Western Railway
|
WR
|
Mumbai
|
November 5, 1951
|
Mumbai Central, Baroda, Ratlam, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Bhavnagar
|
10.
|
South Western Railway
|
SWR
|
Hubli
|
April 1, 2003
|
Hubli, Bangalore, Mysore
|
11.
|
North Western Railway
|
NWR
|
Jaipur
|
October 1, 2002
|
Jaipur, Ajmer, Bikaner, Jodhpur
|
12.
|
West Central Railway
|
WCR
|
Jabalpur
|
April 1, 2003
|
Jabalpur, Bhopal, Kota
|
13.
|
North Central Railway
|
NCR
|
Allahabad
|
April 1, 2003
|
Allahabad, Agra, Jhansi
|
14.
|
South East Central Railway
|
SECR
|
Bilaspur, CG
|
April 1, 2003
|
Bilaspur, Raipur, Nagpur
|
15.
|
East Coast Railway
|
ECoR
|
Bhubaneswar
|
April 1, 2003
|
Khurda Road, Sambalpur, Visakhapatnam
|
16.
|
East Central Railway
|
ECR
|
Hajipur
|
October 1, 2002
|
Danapur, Dhanbad, Mughalsarai, Samastipur, Sonpur
|
17.
|
Konkan Railway†
|
KR
|
Navi Mumbai
|
January 26, 1998
|
18.
|
Calcutta Metro
|
|
|
|
†Konkan Railway (KR) is constituted as a separately incorporated railway, with its headquarters at Belapur CBD (Navi Mumbai). It comes under the control of the Railway Ministry and the Railway Board.
Calcutta Metro is owned and operated by Indian Railways and is considered to have the status of a zonal railway.