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3rd April 2016, 01:08 PM
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Railway of India
Hi I would like to know the details of the Indian Railways as my daughter has received an assignment on Indian Railways?
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3rd April 2016, 01:08 PM
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Re: Railway of India
Indian Railways (reporting mark IR) is an Indian state-claimed endeavor, possessed and worked by the Government of India through the Ministry of Railways. It is one of the world's biggest railroad systems involving 115,000 km (71,000 mi) of track over a course of 65,808 km (40,891 mi) and 7,112 stations In 2014-15, IR conveyed 8.397 billion travelers every year or more than 23 million travelers a day (generally 50% of whom were rural travelers) and 1058.81 million tons of cargo in the year In 2014–2015 Indian Railways had incomes of ₹1634.50 billion (US$24 billion) which comprises of ₹1069.27 billion (US$16 billion) from cargo and ₹402.80 billion (US$5.9 billion) from travelers tickets. Indian Railways is isolated into 16 zones, which are further sub-separated into divisions. The quantity of zones in Indian Railways expanded from six to eight in 1951, nine in 1966 and sixteen in 2003. Each zonal railroad is comprised of a specific number of divisions, each having a divisional central station. There are a sum of sixty-eight divisions Sr Name Abbr. Headquarters Divisions 1 Southern SR Chennai Chennai, Tiruchirappalli, Madurai and Salem,[20] Palakkad, Thiruvananthapuram 2 Central CR Mumbai Mumbai CST, Bhusawal, Pune, Solapur and Nagpur 3 Western WR Mumbai Mumbai Central, Ratlam, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Bhavnagar and Vadodara 4 Eastern ER Kolkata Howrah, Sealdah, Asansol and Malda Town 5 Northern NR Delhi Delhi, Ambala, Firozpur, Lucknow and Moradabad 6 North Eastern NER Gorakhpur Izzatnagar, Lucknow and Varanasi 7 South Eastern SER Kolkata Adra, Chakradharpur, Kharagpur and Ranchi 8 Northeast Frontier NFR Maligaon Alipurduar, Katihar, Rangia, Lumding and Tinsukia 9 South Central SCR Secunderabad Vijayawada, Secunderabad, Guntakal, Guntur, Hyderabad and Nanded 10 East Central ECR Hajipur Danapur, Dhanbad, Mughalsarai, Samastipur and Sonpur 11 North Western NWR Jaipur Jaipur, Ajmer, Bikaner and Jodhpur 12 East Coast ECoR Bhubaneswar Khurda Road, Sambalpur and Visakhapatnam 13 North Central NCR Allahabad Allahabad, Agra and Jhansi 14 South East Central SECR Bilaspur Bilaspur, Raipur and Nagpur 15 South Western SWR Hubballi Hubballi, Bengaluru, Mysuru and Kalaburgi[21] 16 West Central WCR Jabalpur Jabalpur, Bhopal and Kota |