Indian Railway Zones And Divisions - Zones Information

Indian Railway System is the National Railway System. The Government of India operated by the Ministry of Railways. The Indian Railways is divided several regional Zones. Therefore the Indian Railway Zones are 73 divisions totally. A Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) has each railway zone and reports to the General Manager (GM). Each zone is classified into Divisions geographically. Divisions are the basic unit of operation. Indian Railway system has present 17 Zones and 68 Divisions in the Country. The Indian Railway System has 9 older Zones, and recently 7 new zones have been created. In 2010, Kolkata Metro was given the status of the 17th zone of Indian Railways.Recently add new one Konkan Railway.

S.No	Zone Code	Zone Name	Zone Head Quaters	Distance (KM)	No of Stations	Railway Divisions
1	NR	Northern Railway	Delhi	6,968 KM	1142	Delhi,Ambala,Firozpur,Lucknow NR,Moradabad
2	NER	North Eastern Railway	Gorakhpur	3,667 KM	537	Lucknow NER,Izzatnagar,Varanasi
3	NFR	Northeast Frontier Railway	Guwahati	3,907 KM	690	Alipurduar,Tinsukia,Katihar,Rangiya,Lumding
4	ER	Eastern Railway	Sealdah	2,414 KM	576	Malda,Howrah,Sealdah,Asansol
5	SER	South Eastern Railway	Howrah	2,631 KM	353	Adra,Chakradharpur,Ranchi,Kharagpur
6	SCR	South Central Railway	Secunderabad	6,137 KM	883	Secunderabad,Hyderabad,Vijayawada,Guntakal,Guntur,Hazur Sahib Nanded
7	SR	Southern Railway	Chennai	6,844 KM	890	Chennai,Tiruchirappalli,Madurai,Palakkad,Thiruvananthapuram,Salem
8	CR	Central Railway	Mumbai	3,905 KM	612	Mumbai,Bhusawal,Pune,Solapur,Nagpur
9	WR	Western Railway	Mumbai	6,182 KM	1046	Mumbai WR,Ratlam,Ahmedabad,Rajkot,Bhavnagar,Vadodara
10	SWR	South Western Railway	Hubballi	3,177 KM	456	Hubballi,Bengaluru,Mysuru
11	NWR	North Western Railway	Jaipur	5,459 KM	663	Jaipur,Ajmer,Bikaner,Jodhpur
12	WCR	West Central Railway	Jabalpur	2,965 KM	372	Jabalpur,Bhopal,Kota
13	NCR	North Central Railway	Allahabad	3,151 KM	435	Allahabad,Agra,Jhansi
14	SECR	South East Central Railway	Bilaspur	2,447 KM	358	Bilaspur,Raipur,Nagpur SEC
15	ECoR	East Coast Railway	Bhubaneswar	2,572 KM	342	Khurda Road,Sambalpur,Waltair
16	ECR	East Central Railway	Hajipur	3,628 KM	800	Danapur,Dhanbad,Mughalsarai,Samastipur,Sonpur
17	MTP	Metro Railway	Kolkata	130 KM	75	NA
18	KR	Konkan Railway	Mumbai			None

The Nine older Railway Zones

1. Northern Railway (NR)
2. North Eastern Railway (NER)
3. Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR, sometimes NEFR)
4. Western Railway (WR)
5. Southern Railway (SR)
6. South Central Railway (SCR)
7. South Eastern Railway (SER)
8. Eastern Railway (ER)
9. Central Railway (CR)

The seven new zones are:

1. South Western Railway (SWR) (NR)
2. North Western Railway (NWR)
3. West Central Railway (WCR)
4. North Central Railway (NCR)
5. South East Central Railway (SECR)
6. East Coast Railway (ECoR)
7. East Central Railway (ECR)

Deemed zones:

• Kolkata Metro (given zonal status Dec. 29, 2010)
• Konkan Railway (deemed a zone for administrative purposes)