List of Indian Railway zones along with their divisions and headquarters.

Railway Zones

The Indian Railways is a huge organisation spread over length and breadth of the country. To make its management and operations smooth and hassle-free, it has been divided into zones, which are further sub-divided into divisions. Each division has its divisional headquarter. At present there are 17 Railway Zones and a total of 70 divisions in India. Each of these Railway divisions is headed by a Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) who reports to the General Manager (GM) of that zone. The Divisional Railway Manager is generally assisted by one or two Additional Divisional Railway Managers (ADRM) of the division.
The 17 zones and the 70 divisions are listed below
S#. Zone Name Abbr Headquarters Railway Divisions
1 Central Railway CR Mumbai Maharashtra Mumbai, Bhusawal, Pune, Solapur, Nagpur
2 East Central Railway ECR Vaishali Bihar Danapur, Dhanbad, Mughalsarai, Samastipur, Sonpur
3 East Coast Railway ECoR Bhubaneshwar Orissa Khurda Road, Sambalpur, Waltair
4 Eastern Railway ER Kolkata West Bengal Howrah, Sealdah, Asansol, Malda
5 Konkan Railway KR Navi Mumbai Karwar, Ratnagiri
6 North Central Railway NCR Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh Allahabad, Agra, Jhansi
7 North Eastern Railway NER Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh Izzatnagar, Lucknow NER, Varanasi
8 North Western Railway NWR Jaipur Rajasthan Jaipur, Ajmer, Bikaner, Jodhpur
9 Northeast Frontier Railway NFR Guwahati Assam Alipurduar, Katihar, Rangiya, Lumding, Tinsukia
10 Northern Railway NR New Delhi Delhi,Ambala, Firozpur, Lucknow NR, Moradabad
11 South Central Railway SCR Secunderabad Telangana Secunderabad, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Guntakal, Guntur, Nanded
12 South East Central Railway SECR Bilaspur Chhattisgarh Bilaspur, Raipur, Nagpur SEC
13 South Eastern Railway SER Nagpur Maharashtra Adra, Chakradharpur, Kharagpur, Ranchi
14 South Western Railway SWR Hubli Karnataka Hubballi, Bengaluru, Mysuru
15 Southern Railway SR Chennai Tamilnadu Chennai, Tiruchirappalli, Madurai, Palakkad, Salem, Thiruvananthapuram
16 West Central Railway WCR Jabalpur Madhya Pradesh Jabalpur, Bhopal, Kota
17 Western Railway WR Mumbai Maharashtra Mumbai WR, Ratlam, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Vadodara