Railway Zones in India – Latest GK and Current Affairs

Indian Railways are the largest public sector in India and worlds eighth largest employer. It divides the operations into its various zones. It is Head Quartered at New Delhi. Railways are one of the common public transport used by Indian citizens at cheap fares. Piyush Goyal of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is the current Railway Minister of India. He is the head of Ministry of Railways. Indian Railways are under Ministry of Railways, Government of India. IRCTC is one of its subsidiary. In this article, we have shared the list of different railway zones in India which is important for competitive exams like PSC, SSC, RRB, Banking etc.

Well, Lord Dalhousie, is known as “Father of Indian Railways”. The first passenger train in Indian history ran between Bombay and Thane in 1853. Vivek express from Dibrugarh – Kanyakumari , is the longest running train in India 

Indian Railways are having 18 zones and 68 divisions in total including the last one South Coast Railway zone, with it’s headquarters at Vishakapatanam. In each divisions we have a DRM ( Divisional Railway Manager ) who is the head ,reports to GM, the General Manager.

There are many questions expected be asked for various competitive examinations like PSC, SSC, RRB, Banking regarding this railway zones and its headquarters.

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Railway Zones in India

• Central Railway

Zone HQ  : Mumbai CSMT

Railway Divisions : Mumbai, Bhusawal, Pune, Solapur, Nagpur CR

• East Coast Railway  

Zone HQ : Bhubaneswar                     

Railway Divisions : Khurda Road, Sambalpur, Rayagada 

• East Central Railway

Zone HQ : Hajipur

Railway divisions : Danapur, Dhanbad, Mughalsarai, Samastipur, Sonpur

• Eastern Railway

Zone HQ : Kolkata

Railway Divisions : Howrah, Sealdah, Asansol, Malda

• North Central Railway

Zone HQ : Allahabad

Railway Divisions : Allahabad, Agra, Jhansi

• North Eastern Railway

Zone HQ : Gorakhpur

Railway Divisions : Izzatnagar, Lucknow NER, Varanasi

• Northeast Frontier Railway

Zone HQ : Guwahati

Railway Divisions : Alipurduar, Katihar, Rangiya, Lumding, Tinsukia

• Northern Railway

Zone HQ :Delhi

Railway Divisions : Delhi, Ambala, Firozpur, Lucknow NR,  Moradabad

• North Western Railway

Zone HQ :Jaipur

Railway Divisions : Jaipur, Ajmer, Bikaner, Jodhpur 

• South Coast Railway

Zone HQ : Visakhapatnam

• South Central Railway

Zone HQ :Secunderabad

Railway Divisions : Secunderabad, Hyderabad, Nanded

• South East Central Railway

Zone HQ : Bilaspur

Railway Divisions : Bilaspur, Raipur, Nagpur SEC

• South Eastern Railway

Zone HQ : Kolkata

Railway Divisions : Adra, Chakradharpur, Kharagpur, Ranchi

• Southern Railway

Zone HQ : Chennai

Railway Divisions : Chennai, Tiruchirappalli, Madurai, Palakkad, Salem, Thiruvananthapuram

• South Western Railway

Zone HQ : Hubballi

Railway Divisions : Hubballi, Bengaluru, Mysuru, 

• West Central Railway

Zone HQ : Jabalpur

Railway Divisions : Jabalpur, Bhopal, Kota

• Western Railway

Zone HQ :Mumbai

Railway Divisions : Mumbai WR, Ratlam, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Vadodara

• Metro Railway Kolkata

Zone HQ : Kolkata

Railway Divisions : Kolkata

Each divisions are having various Divisional Managers as various department heads like department of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, signalling. Telecommunication, commercial, security, safety, medical, accounts, human resource etc. All DMs are reporting DRMs who is assisted by one or two ADRMs. Every divisions are with control rooms for controlling and monitoring along with Locomotive sheds to maintain diesel and electric locomotives, All these are under the control of Divisional Railway Manager. DRMs are posted from any of the eight services from Indian Railway Services like IRPS, IRAS, IRTS,IRSEE,IRSE etc.

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Indian Railways are recruiting through a common board called RRB the railways recruiting board, to fill various vacancies. As it is public sector governed by Government of India, every candidate is aspiring to get into railway services. It also provide good salary and incentives along with a better quality of life style too. The pension facilities are also good inorder to secure our retired life.

Hope you all are able to understand the different railway zones and its headquarters. As it is an important topic for all competitive exams, we remind you to revise this at your best.

All the best for your examination!