Indian Railway zones with Headquarters & Divisions

✸ Railways are first introduced to india in the year 1853 from Mumbai to Thane over a distance of 34km.

✸ Indian Railways is the 4th Largest Railway Network in the World and Largest in Asian Continent

✸ The longest Railway Station in India is Gorakhpur Railway Station, Uttar Pradesh (1.366.33m)

✸ Vivek Express is the Longest Train in India connecting Dibrugarh & Kanyakumari named 15905/15906

✸ Indian Railways is the Multi Gauge, multi-traction system covering Broad Gauge(1676 mm), Meter Gauge(1000mm), Narrow Gauge(762/610mm) with around 64600km route.

✸ Railways regonised by UNESCO are Darjeeling Himalayan Railways, Chhatrapati Shivaji terminus, Kalka-Shimla Railways.

Important Production Units of Indian Railways:-

✦ Chittaranjan Locomotive Works – Chittaranjan, West Bengal
✦ Diesel Locomotive Works – Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
✦ Diesel Loco modernisation works – Patiala, Punjab
✦ Integral Coach Factory – Chennai, Tamilnadu
✦ Rail Coach Factory – Kapurthala, Punjab
✦ Rail Wheel Factory – Bangalore, Karnataka

Railway Zones along with Headquarter & their Divisions

✸ Indian Railways has 18 Railway Zones including newly formed South Coast Railway.

Railway zone	Headquarter	Divisions
Central Railway	Mumbai	Mumbai, Nagpur, Bhusawal, Pune, Sholapur
Eastern Railway	Kolkatta	Howrah-1, Howrah-2, Sealdah, Malda, Asansol, Chitranjan
East Central Railway	Hajipur	Danapur, Mugalsarai, Dhanbad, Sonpur, Samastipur
East Coast Railway	Bhubaneshwar	Khudra Road, Waltair, Sambhalpur
Northern Railway	Baroda House, New Delhi	Delhi-1, Delhi-2, Ambala, Moradabad, Lucknow, Firozpur
North Central Railway	Allahabad	Allahabad, Jhansi, Agra
North Eastern Railway	Gorakhpur	Izzatnagar, Lucknow, Varanasi, DLW
North Frontier Railway	Maligaon, Guwahati	Katihar, Alipurduar, Rangjiya, Lumding, Tinsukhia
North Western Railway	Jaipur	Jaipur, Jodhpur, Bikaner, Ajmer
Southern Railway	Chennai	Chennai, Madurai, Palghat, Trichy, Trivendrum
South Central Railway	Secunderabad	Srcunderabad, Hyderabad, Guntakal, Vijaywada, Nanded
South Eastern Railway	Garden Reach, Kolkatta	Kharagpur, Adra, Chakradhapur, Ranchi, Shalimar
South East Central Railway	Bilaspur	Bilaspur, Nagpur, Raipur
South Western Railway	Hubli	Bangalore, Mysore, Hubli, RWF/YNK
Western Railway	Mumbai CST	BCT, Vadodara, Ahmedabad, Ratlam, Rajkot, Bhavnagar
West Central Railway	Jabalpur	Jabalpur, Bhopal, Kota
Kolkata Metro	Kolkata	Kolkata Metro
South Coast Railway	Vishakapatnam	Waltair (Vishakapatnam), Vijayawada, Guntur, Guntakal