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INDIAN RAILWAYS AT A GLANCE Basic Information About Indian Railways (IR)

• Indian Railways (IR) is operated by the Ministry of Railways. It is 's national railway system. • IR Network is the fourth-largest railway network in the world by size. • The Total IR Network size is 121,407 kilometres and the total track is over 67,368-kilometre route. • 1853 was the year when Railways were first introduced in India. • The First Train ran between Mumbai and Thane. • The Nationalisation of Railway happened in 1951. • India Railway is the Single Largest Employer in the country. • IR has 7349 railway stations across the length and breadth of the Nation. • The number of passenger Trains running daily is more than 13000. Division of Indian Railways

IR is divided into 16 zones, headed by general managers reporting to the Railway Board.

S/No. Name of the Railway Zone Zonal Headquarter Division 1) Mumbai 2) Nagpur 1 Central Railway Mumbai 3) Bhusawal 4) Pune 5) Sholapur 1) Howrah-I 2) Howrah-II 3) Sealdah 4) Malda 2 Eastern Railway Kolkata 5) 6) Chitaranjan 7) 1) Danapur 2) Mugalsarai 3 East Central Railway Hajipur 3) Dhanbad 4) Sonpur 5) Samastipur 1) Khurda Road 4 East Coast Railway Bhubaneshwar 2) Waltair 3) Sambhalpur 5 Northern Railway 1) Delhi-I

2) Delhi-II 3) Ambala Baroda House, New 4) Moradabad Delhi 5) Lucknow 6) Firozpur 1) Allahabad 6 North Central Railway Allahabad 2) Jhansi 3) 1) Izzatnagar 2) Lucknow 7 North Eastern Railway Gorakhpur 3) 4) DLW 1) Katihar 2) Alipurduar 8 North Frontier Railway Maligaon, Guwahati 3) Rangiya 4) Lumding 5) Tinsukhia 1) 2) 9 North Western Railway Jaipur 3) Bikaner 4) Ajmer 1) 2) 10 Southern Railway Chennai 3) Palghat 4) Trichy 5) Trivendrum 1) Secunderabad 2) 11 South Central Railway Secunderabad 3) Guntakal 4) Vijaywada 5) Nanded 1) Kharagpur 2) Adra Garden Reach, 3) 12 South Eastern Railway Kolkata Chakradharpur 4) Ranchi 5) Shalimar 1) Bilaspur 13 South East Central Railway Bilaspur 2) Nagpur 3) Raipur 1) 14 South Western Railway Hubli 2)

3) Hubli 4) RWF/YNK 1) BCT 2) Vadodara 3) Ahemdabad 15 Western Railway Mumbai CST 4) Ratlam 5) Rajkot 6) Bhavnagar 1) Jabalpur 16 West Central Railway Jabalpur 2) Bhopal 3) Kota

Railway Tracks:

• Track – Distance between rails • Broad Gauge – 1676mm • Metre Gauge – 1000mm • Narrow Gauge – 762mm/610mm

Types of Trains

• Duranto • Rajdhani • Shatabdi • Garib Rath • Jan Shatabdi • Sampark Kranti • Superfast Express/Mail • Express Trains • Suburban Trains • Metros and Monorails (Not under Indian Railways) There is one of other Type called . Currently 4 Luxury Trains run in India – Maharaja’s Express, , and The IR Production Units

Name and location of Production S.No. Product Unit. Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW), 1 Diesel Locomotive Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Chittaranjan Locomotive- Works 2 Electric Locomotive (CLW), Chittaranjan, West Bengal.

Integral Coach Factory (ICF), 3 Coaches Perambur, Chennai, . Rail Coach Factory (RCF), 4 Coaches Kapurthala, Punjab. Locomotive Diesel Loco Modernization Works 5 manufacture and (DMW), Patiala, Punjab. rebuilding (RWF), 6 Wheels & Axles Bengaluru, . Rail Coach Factory (RCF), Rae 7 Coaches Bareli, Uttar Pradesh. 8 Rail Wheel Plant, Bela, Bihar. Wheels