railway zones

stations' administration.

Sl. No	Name	Abbr.	Date Established	Headquarters	Divisions
1.	Central	CR	1951, November 5	Mumbai	Mumbai, Bhusawal, Pune, Solapur, Nagpur
2.	East Central	ECR	2002, October 1	Hajipur	Danapur, Dhanbad, Mughalsarai, Samastipur, Sonpur
3.	East Coast	ECoR	2003, April 1	Bhubaneswar	Khurda Road, Sambalpur, Visakhapatnam
4.	Eastern	ER	1952, April	Kolkata	Howrah, Sealdah, Asansol, Malda
5.	North Central	NCR	2003, April 1	Allahabad	Allahabad, Agra, Jhansi
6.	North Eastern	NER	1952	Gorakhpur	Izzatnagar, Lucknow, Varanasi
7.	North Western	NWR	2002, October 1	Jaipur	Jaipur, Ajmer, Bikaner, Jodhpur
8.	Northeast Frontier	NFR	1958	Guwahati	Alipurduar, Katihar, Lumding, Rangia, Tinsukia
9.	Northern	NR	1952, April 14	Delhi	Delhi, Ambala, Firozpur, Lucknow, Moradabad
10.	South Central	SCR	1966, October 2	Secunderabad	Secunderabad, Hyderabad, Guntakal, Guntur, Nanded, Vijayawada
11.	South East Central	SECR	2003, April 1	Bilaspur	Bilaspur, Raipur, Nagpur
12.	South Eastern	SER	1955	Kolkata	Adra, Chakradharpur, Kharagpur, Ranchi
13.	South Western	SWR	2003, April 1	Hubli	Hubli, Bangalore, Mysore
14.	Southern	SR	1951, April 14	Chennai	Chennai, Madurai, Palakkad, Salem, Tiruchchirapalli, Thiruvanathapuram
15.	West Central	WCR	2003, April 1	Jabalpur	Jabalpur, Bhopal, Kota
16.	Western	WR	1951, November 5	Mumbai	Mumbai Central, Ratlam, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Vadodara

Founded	16 April 1853 (1853-04-16)[1]
Headquarters	New Delhi, Delhi, India