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Indian Railway Zones Indian Railways is a department owned and controlled by the Government of India, via the Ministry of Railways. Indian Railways is administered by the ✅ Railway Board, which has a financial commissioner, five members and a chairman. Indian Railway Zones are following. Indian Railway History Railway zones Indian Railways is divided into zones, which are further sub-divided into divisions. The number of zones in Indian Railways increased from six to eight in 1951, nine in 1952, and finally ✅ 16 in 2003. Each zonal railway is made up of a certain number of divisions, each having a divisional headquarters. There are a total of sixty-seven divisions. The Kolkata Metro is owned and operated by Indian Railways, but is not a part of any of the zones. It is administratively considered to have the status of a zonal railway. Each of the sixteen zones, as well as the ✅ Kolkata Metro, is headed by a General Manager (GM) who reports directly to the Railway Board. The zones are further divided into divisions under the control of Divisional Railway Managers (DRM). The divisional officers of engineering, mechanical, electrical, signal and telecommunication, accounts, personnel, operating, commercial and safety branches report to the respective Divisional Manager and are in charge of operation and maintenance of assets. Further down the hierarchy tree are the Station Masters who control individual stations and the train movement through the track territory under their stations' administration. Latest Station Name And Station Code List Southern Railway History Indian Railway zones List Sl. NoNameAbbr.Date EstablishedHeadquartersDivisions1.Central RailwayCRNovember 5, 1951MumbaiMumbai, Bhusawal, Pune, Solapur, Nagpur2.East Central RailwayECROctober 1, 2002HajipurDanapur, Dhanbad, Mughalsarai, Samastipur, Sonpur3.East Coast RailwayECoRApril 1, 2003BhubaneswarKhurda Road, Sambalpur, Visakhapatnam4.Eastern RailwayERApril, 1952KolkataHowrah, Sealdah, Asansol, Malda5.North Central RailwayNCRApril 1, 2003AllahabadAllahabad, Agra, Jhansi6.North Eastern RailwayNER1952GorakhpurIzzatnagar, Lucknow, Varanasi7.North Western RailwayNWROctober 1, 2002JaipurJaipur, Ajmer, Bikaner, Jodhpur8.Northeast Frontier RailwayNFR1958GuwahatiAlipurduar, Katihar, Lumding, Rangia, Tinsukia9.Northern RailwayNRApril 14, 1952DelhiDelhi, Ambala, Firozpur, Lucknow, Moradabad10.South Central RailwaySCROctober 2, 1966SecunderabadSecunderabad, Hyderabad, Guntakal, Guntur, Nanded, Vijayawada11.South East Central RailwaySECRApril 1, 2003Bilaspur, CGBilaspur, Raipur, Nagpur12.South Eastern RailwaySER1955KolkataAdra, Chakradharpur, Kharagpur, Ranchi13.South Western RailwaySWRApril 1, 2003HubliHubli, Bangalore, Mysore14.Southern RailwaySRApril 14, 1951ChennaiChennai, Madurai, Palakkad, Salem, Tiruchchirapalli, Thiruvanathapuram15.West Central RailwayWCRApril 1, 2003JabalpurJabalpur, Bhopal, Kota16.Western RailwayWRNovember 5, 1951MumbaiMumbai Central, Vadodara, Ratlam, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Bhavnagar

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