Indian Railways

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# Railway Zone Headquarters Divisions

1. Central Railway Mumbai Mumbai

Nagpur

Bhusawal

Pune

Sholapur

2. Eastern Railway Kolkata Howrah-I

Howrah-II

Sealdah

Malda

Asansol

Chitaranjan

Kolkata Metro

3. East Central Railway Hajipur Danapur

Mugalsarai

Dhanbad

Sonpur

Samastipur

4. East Coast Railway Bhubaneshwar Khurda Road

Waltair

Sambhalpur

5. Northern Railway Baroda House, Delhi-I

New Delhi
Delhi-II

Ambala

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# Railway Zone Headquarters Divisions

5. Northern Railway Baroda House, Moradabad

New Delhi
Lucknow

Firozpur

6. North Central Railway Allahabad Allahabad

Jhansi

Agra

7. North Eastern Railway Gorakhpur Izzatnagar

Lucknow

Varanasi

DLW

8. North Frontier Railway Maligaon, Katihar

Guwahati
Alipurduar

Rangiya

Lumding

Tinsukhia

9. North Western Railway Jaipur Jaipur

Jodhpur

Bikaner

Ajmer

10. Southern Railway Chennai Chennai

Madurai

Palghat

Trichy

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# Railway Zone Headquarters Divisions

10. Southern Railway Chennai Trivandrum

11. South Central Railway Secunderabad Secunderabad

Hyderabad

Guntakal

Guntur

Vijaywada

Nanded

12. South Eastern Railway Garden Kharagpur

Reach,
Kolkata Adra

Chakradharpur

Ranchi

Shalimar

13. South East Central Railway Bilaspur Bilaspur

Nagpur

Raipur

14. South Western Railway Hubli Bangalore

Mysore

Hubli

RWF/YNK

15. Western Railway Mumbai CST BCT

Vadodara

Ahmedabad

Ratlam

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# Railway Zone Headquarters Divisions

15. Western Railway Mumbai CST Rajkot

Bhavnagar

16. West Central Railway Jabalpur Jabalpur

Bhopal

Kota

(*Metro Railway, Kolkata has also been categorized in to a railway zone, so a total of 17 Railways
zones are there in India)

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Key Notes:

The first train in India “Great Indian Peninsula Railway” ran between Bombay and Thane
on 16 April, 1853. The distance covered by this train is around 34 kilometers.
Vivek Express runs between Dibrugarh (Assam) - Kanyakumari (Tamil Nadu) is the
longest distance running train in India.
The National Academy of Indian Railways (NAIR), previously known as Railway Staff
College is located in Vadodara, Gujarat.
The longest railway bridge in India is constructed over Vembanad Lake in Kerala.
Howrah Junction is the busiest railway stations in terms of passenger volume per day in
India.
The Chenab Bridge (under construction, planned to open on 2019) across Chenab River
in Jammu and Kashmir is the world's highest rail bridge.
Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh), the headquarters of North Eastern Railway has the longest
railway platform (1,366.33 m) in the world.
Siliguri Railway Station in West Bengal has all the three guages i.e., broad, metre and
narrow.

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In India all major passenger and freight routes are now broad gauge. The width of broad
gauge is 5 feet 6 inches (1676mm).
The Railway manufacturing units are maintained by Ministry of Railways and they are
spread across six locations in India. They are:
a) Chittaranjan Locomotive Works, Chittaranjan, West Bengal
b) Diesel Locomotive Works, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
c) Diesel Loco Modernisation Works, Patiala, Punjab
d) Integral Coach Factory, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
e) Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala, Punjab
f) Rail Wheel Factory, Bangalore, Karnataka
Siliguri Railway Station in West Bengal has all the three guages i.e., broad, metre and
narrow.
The Fairy Queen, an 1855-built steam locomotive, runs regularly between New Delhi and
Alwar, in Rajasthan.

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John Mathai was the first railway minister of independent India. Piyush Goyal is the
present railway minister of India.
The name "Shatabdi" means centenary in Sanskrit. The first Shatabdi Express train was
introduced in 1988 to commemorate the birth centenary of Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first
Prime Minister of India.
United States has the longest railway length in the world followed by China, Russia and
India.
The Trans-Siberian Railway (the Moscow-Vladivostok line), spanning a length of
9,289km, is the longest and one of the busiest railway lines in the world.
The Maitree Express runs between India and Bangladesh whereas Samjhauta Express
(suspended now) runs between Delhi and Attari in India and Lahore in Pakistan.
Northern Railways is the largest zone in India in terms of route kilometers.
Mughalsarai is the largest marshalling yard in Asia.

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Matheran Hill Railway is a 2 ft narrow-gauge heritage railway in Maharashtra, India. This

railway comes under the administration of the Central Railways.
The Konkan Railway is a subsidiary zone of the Indian Railways passing through 4 major
states, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka & Kerala.
National Rail Museum located in New Delhi.
At present there are 17 Zonal Railways (including Metro Railway, Kolkata).

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The Headquarters of Indian Railways is located in New Delhi.

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus formerly known as Victoria Terminus is a historic
railway station and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India which
serves as the headquarters of the Central Railways.
Mountain Railways of India (Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (West Bengal), Nilgiri
Mountain Railway (Ooty, Tamil Nadu) and Kalka-Shimla Railway (Himachal Pradesh))
are included in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in India.

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