| Sl. No |
Name of the Railway zone |
Abbr. |
Route length (in Km) |
Headquarters |
Divisions |
| 1 |
Central Railway |
CR |
3905 |
Mumbai |
Mumbai, Bhusawal, Pune, Solapur, Nagpur |
| 2 |
East Central Railway |
ECR |
3628 |
Hajipur |
Danapur, Dhanbad, Mughalsarai, Samastipur, Sonpur |
| 3 |
East Coast Railway |
ECoR |
2572 |
Bhubaneswar |
Khurda Road, Sambalpur, Waltair |
| 4 |
Eastern Railway |
ER |
2414 |
Kolkata |
Howrah, Sealdah, Asansol, Malda |
| 5 |
North Central Railway |
NCR |
3151 |
Allahabad |
Allahabad, Agra, Jhansi |
| 6 |
North Eastern Railway |
NER |
3667 |
Gorakhpur |
Izzatnagar, Lucknow, Varanasi |
| 7 |
North Western Railway |
NWR |
5459 |
Jaipur |
Jaipur, Ajmer, Bikaner, Jodhpur |
| 8 |
Northeast Frontier Railway |
NFR |
3907 |
Guwahati |
Alipurduar, Katihar, Rangia, Lumding, Tinsukia |
| 9 |
Northern Railway |
NR |
6968 |
Delhi |
Delhi, Ambala, Firozpur, Lucknow, Moradabad |
| 10 |
South Central Railway |
SCR |
5803 |
Secunderabad |
Secunderabad, Vijayawada, Hyderabad, Guntakal, Guntur, Nanded |
| 11 |
South East Central Railway |
SECR |
2447 |
Bilaspur |
Bilaspur, Raipur |
| 12 |
South Eastern Railway |
SER |
2631 |
Kolkata |
Adra, Chakradharpur, Kharagpur, Ranchi |
| 13 |
South Western Railway |
SWR |
3177 |
Hubballi |
Hubballi, Bengaluru, Mysuru, Kalaburagi |
| 14 |
Southern Railway |
SR |
5098 |
Chennai |
Chennai, Tiruchirappalli, Madurai, Palakkad, Salem, Thiruvananthapuram |
| 15 |
West Central Railway |
WCR |
2965 |
Jabalpur |
Jabalpur, Bhopal, Kota |
| 16 |
Western Railway |
WR |
6182 |
Mumbai |
Mumbai Central, Ratlam, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Vadodara |
