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The Western Railway (abbreviated WR) is one of the 19 zones of Indian Railways and is among the busiest railway networks in India, headquartered at Mumbai, Maharashtra. The major railway routes of Indian Railways which come under Western Railways are: Mumbai Central – Ratlam , Mumbai Central– Ahmedabad and Palanpur –Ahmedabad.
Central Railway (abbreviated CR) is one of the 19 zones of Indian Railways. [1] Its headquarters are located at Mumbai . [ 2 ] It has the distinction of operating the first passenger railway line in India , which opened from Mumbai to Thane on 16 April 1853 (171 years ago) ( 1853-04-16 ) .
The West Central Railway (abbreviated WCR), one of the 19 zones of the Indian Railways, came into existence on 1 April 2003.It is headquartered at Jabalpur. [2] It was created by taking away two divisions namely Bhopal division and Jabalpur division from central railways and one division namely Kota division from Western Railway zone.
Extent of the Indian railway network in 1909. Officially notified as a new railway zone on 14 April 1952, its origin goes back to 3 March 1859. On 14 April 1952, the Northern Railway zone was created by merging Jodhpur Railway, Bikaner Railway, Eastern Punjab Railway and three divisions of the East Indian Railway north-west of Mughalsarai (Uttar Pradesh).
By December 2017, railways for the first time installed 6,095 GPS-enabled "Fog Pilot Assistance System" railway signalling devices in four most affected zones, Northern Railway zone, North Central Railway zone, North Eastern Railway zone and North Western Railway zone, by doing away with the old practice of putting firecrackers on train tracks ...
The South Eastern Railway (abbreviated SER) is one of the 19 railway zones in India. It is headquartered at Garden Reach , Kolkata , West Bengal , India . [ 1 ] It comprises Adra railway division , Chakradharpur railway division , Kharagpur railway division and Ranchi railway division .
The North Central Railway (abbreviated NCR) is one of the 19 railway zones in India.The largest railway station in NCR is Kanpur Central.It is headquartered at Prayagraj and comprises three divisions: Prayagraj, Jhansi, and Agra of the erstwhile Northern Railway, Jhansi division of the erstwhile Central Railway, and new Agra division.
Map of South Western Railway zone (in Cyan) South Western Railway covers most of the railway lines in the state of Karnataka and Goa except the Konkan Railway line, parts of Sri Sathya Sai district and Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh, Krishnagiri district, parts of Dharmapuri district and Tirupathur district of Tamil Nadu and parts of Sangli district and Solapur district of Maharashtra.