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 |