Railway Zones and Divisions in The Country

At present there are 17 Railway Zones and 68 Divisions in the country. The details are given below:

S.NO.	RAILWAY ZONES	Headquarter	DIVISIONS
1.	Central Railway	Mumbai	Mumbai (CST), Bhusawal, Nagpur, Solapur, Pune.
2.	Eastern Railway	Kolkata	Asansol, Howrah, Malda, Sealdah.
3.	East Central Railway	Hajipur	Danapur,Dhanbad,Mughalsarai, Samastipur,Sonpur.
4.	East Coast Railway	Bhubaneswar	Khurda Road, Sambalpur, Waltair.
5.	Northern Railway	New Delhi	Ambala, Delhi, Lucknow, Moradabad, Ferozpur.
6.	North Central Railway	Allahabad	Allahabad, Agra, Jhansi.
7.	North Eastern Railway	Gorakhpur	Lucknow,Izzatnager,Varanasi.
8.	Northeast Frontier Railway	Guwahati	Katihar, Alipurduar, Rangiya, Lumding, Tinsukia.
9.	North Western Railway	Jaipur	Ajmer, Bikaner, Jaipur, Jodhpur.
10.	Southern  Railway	Chennai	Chennai, Madurai, Palghat, Trichy, Trivandrum, Salem.
11.	South Central Railway	Secunderabad	Guntakal, Guntur, Hyderabad, Nanded,Secunderabad,Vijayawada.
12.	South Eastern Railway	Kolkata	Adra,Chakradharpur, Kharagpur, Ranchi.
13.	South East Central Railway	Bilaspur	Bilaspur, Nagpur, Raipur
14.	South Western Railway	Hubli	Bangalore, Hubli, Mysore
15.	Western Railway	Mumbai	Mumbai(Central),Vadodara, Ratlam,Ahmedabad,Rajkot, Bhavnagar.
16.	West  Central  Railway	Jabalpur	Bhopal, Jabalpur, Kota.
17.	Metro Railway	Kolkata	Not applicable.

Zonal and Divisional boundaries are decided by operational/administrative requirements and not on considerations of State boundaries and as such there are some States which have railway lines under jurisdictional control of more than one Zonal Railway/Division.                                                                                                                                         

This Press Release is based on the information given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri Rajen Gohain in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha on 21.07.2017 (Friday).

Courtesy: pib.nic.in