List of Indian Railway Zones (IR Zones) and its divisions :
Indian railways had basically divided its railway network all over India into 16 IR zones to manage, grow & enhance the transportation, railway lines, trains ,resources, supply chain management etc to meet the necessity of public.
Konkan Railway Corporation Limited (KRCL) is a Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) under the Ministry of Indian Railways.
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Railway Zone | Code | Zone Headquarters | Number of Stations | Railway Divisions | |
1 | Northern Railway | NR | Delhi | 1142 | Delhi, Ambala, Firozpur, Lucknow NR,Moradabad |
2 | North Eastern Railway | NER | Gorakhpur | 537 | Izzatnagar, Lucknow NER, Varanasi |
3 | Northeast Frontier Railway | NFR | Guwahati | 690 | Alipurduar, Katihar, Rangiya, Lumding, Tinsukia |
4 | Eastern Railway | ER | Sealdah | 576 | Howrah, Sealdah, Asansol, Malda |
5 | South Eastern Railway | SER | Howrah | 353 | Adra, Chakradharpur, Kharagpur,Ranchi |
6 | South Central Railway | SCR | Secunderabad | 883 | Secunderabad, Hyderabad,Vijayawada,Guntakal, Guntur, Nanded |
7 | Southern Railway | SR | Chennai | 890 | Chennai, Tiruchirappalli, Madurai,Palakkad, Salem, Thiruvananthapuram |
8 | Central Railway | CR | Mumbai | 612 | Mumbai, Bhusawal, Pune, Solapur,Nagpur |
9 | Western Railway | WR | Mumbai | 1046 | Mumbai WR, Ratlam, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Vadodara |
10 | South Western Railway | SWR | Hubballi | 456 | Hubballi, Bengaluru, Mysuru, |
11 | North Western Railway | NWR | Jaipur | 663 | Jaipur, Ajmer, Bikaner, Jodhpur |
12 | West Central Railway | WCR | Jabalpur | 372 | Jabalpur, Bhopal, Kota |
13 | North Central Railway | NCR | Allahabad | 435 | Allahabad, Agra, Jhansi |
14 | South East Central Railway | SECR | Bilaspur | 358 | Bilaspur, Raipur, Nagpur SEC |
15 | East Coast Railway | ECoR | Bhubaneswar | 342 | Khurda Road, Sambalpur, Waltair |
16 | East Central Railway | ECR | Hajipur | 800 | Danapur, Dhanbad, Mughalsarai,Samastipur, Sonpur |
17 | Metro Railway | MTP | Kolkata | 75 | NA |
18 | Konkan Railway | KR | Mumbai | None |