Zones and Divisions of Indian Railways

Indian Railways (IR) is divided into zones, which are further sub-divided into divisions, each having a divisional headquarters. Each of the divisions is headed by a Divisional Railway Manager (DRM), who reports to the General Manager (GM) of the zone. So, today we are discussing about zones and divisions of Indian Railways.

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1. Northern Railway (NR)

The Zonal Headquarters Office of Northern Railways is at Baroda House, New Delhi and divisional headquarters are located at:

– Delhi
– Ambala
– Firozpur
– Lucknow NR
– Moradabad

2. North Eastern Railway (NER)

It is headquartered at Gorakhpur and divisional headquarters are located at:

– Izzatnagar
– Lucknow NER
– Varanasi

3. Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR)

It is headquartered at Guwahati and divisional headquarters are located at:

– Katihar
– Alipurduar
– Lumding
– Rangiya
– Tinsukia

4. Eastern Railway (ER)

Its headquarters is at Fairley Place, Kolkata and comprises four divisions:

– Howrah
– Sealdah
– Asansol
– Malda

5. South Eastern Railway (SER)

It is headquartered at Garden Reach, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It comprises four divisions:

– Adra
– Chakradharpur
– Kharagpur
– Ranchi

6. South Central Railway (SCR)

It’s headquarters is at Secunderabad and comprises six divisions:

– Guntakal
– Guntur
– Nanded
– Secunderabad
– Hyderabad
– Vijayawada

7. Southern Railway (SR)

The Southern Railway headquartered at Chennai Central and comprises six divisions:

– Chennai
– Madurai
– Palghat
– Trichy
– Trivendrum

8. Central Railway (CR)

It’s headquarters is in Mumbai at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus. It comprises five divisions:

– Mumbai
– Nagpur
– Bhusawal
– Pune
– Sholapur

9. Western Railway (WR)

It’s headquarters is in Mumbai at Churchgate. It comprises six divisions:

– Vadodara
– Ahmedabad
– Rajkot
– Bhavnagar
– Ratlam
– Mumbai WR

10. South Western Railway (SWR)

It is headquartered at Hubli and comprises three divisions:

– Bangalore
– Mysore
– Hubli

11. North Western Railway (NWR)

It is headquartered at Jaipur and comprises four divisions:

– Jaipur
– Ajmer
– Bikaner
– Jodhpur

12. West Central Railway (WCR)

It is headquartered at Jabalpur and comprises three divisions:

– Jabalpur
– Bhopal
– Kota

13. North Central Railway (NCR)

It is headquartered at Allahabad and comprises three divisions:

– Allahabad
– Jhansi
– Agra

14. South East Central Railway (SECR)

It is headquartered at Bilaspur and comprises three divisions:

– Bilaspur
– Nagpur
– Raipur

15. East Coast Railway (ECoR)

It is headquartered at Bhubaneswar and comprises three divisions:

– Khurda Road
– Waltair
– Sambhalpur

16. East Central Railway (ECR)

It is headquartered at Hajipur and comprises five divisions:

– Sonpur
– Samastipur
– Danapur
– Mughalsarai
– Dhanba

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