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Railway zones

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.