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Mumbai WR,[56] Ratlam,[57] Ahmedabad, Rajkot,[58] Bhavnagar,[59] Vadodara[60]

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List of IR Zones available
Zone
Number
Railway
zone
Code
Zone
headquarters
Operational statistics[5] (in FY2011-12)
Railway Divisions
Route
length
(km)
Number of
Stations
Revenue
Passengers
carried
(million)
?
South Coast
Railway[45]
SCoR
Visakhapatnam
3,496
₹130,000 million (US$1.6 billion)[a]
Waltair, Vijayawada, Guntur, Guntakal
1
Northern
Railway
NR
Delhi
6,968
1142
₹89,246 million (US$1.1 billion)
685
Delhi,[11] Ambala,[12] Firozpur,[13] Lucknow NR,[14] Moradabad[15]
2
North Eastern
Railway
NER
Gorakhpur
3,667
537
₹17,667 million (US$220 million)
250
Izzatnagar,[19] Lucknow NER,[20] Varanasi[21]
3
Northeast
Frontier
Railway
NFR
Maligaon, Guwahati
3,948
753
₹21,079 million (US$260 million)
88
Alipurduar, Katihar, Rangiya, Lumding, Tinsukia[22]
4
Eastern
Railway
ER
Fairlie Place, Kolkata
2,414
576
₹37,254 million (US$470 million)
1,173
Howrah,[27] Sealdah,[28] Asansol,[29] Malda[30]
5
South Eastern
Railway
SER
Garden
Reach, Kolkata
2,631
353
₹73,721 million (US$920 million)
263
Adra,[46] Chakradharpur,[47] Kharagpur,[48] Ranchi[49]
6
South Central
Railway[45]
SCR
Secunderabad
Junction
3,127
883
₹89,114 million (US$1.1 billion)
378
Secunderabad, Hyderabad, Nanded
7
Southern
Railway
SR
Chennai Central
5,079
890
₹81,820 million (US$1.0 billion)
406
Chennai,[39] Tiruchirappalli,[40] Madurai,[41] Palakkad,[42] Salem,[43] Thiruvananthapuram[44]
8
Central
Railway
CR
Mumbai CSMT
4,102
612
₹75,447 million (US$940 million)
1,675
Mumbai,[6] Bhusawal,[7] Pune,[8] Solapur,[9] Nagpur CR[10]
9
Western
Railway
WR
Mumbai (Churchgate)
6,182
1046
₹82,167 million (US$1.0 billion)
1,654
Mumbai WR,[56] Ratlam,[57] Ahmedabad, Rajkot,[58] Bhavnagar,[59] Vadodara[60]
10
South Western
Railway
SWR
Hubballi
3,566
456
₹26,384 million (US$330 million)
181
Hubballi,[53] Bengaluru,[54] Mysuru[55]
11
North Western
Railway
NWR
Jaipur
5,459
663
₹36,240 million (US$450 million)
157
Jaipur,[23] Ajmer,[24] Bikaner,[25] Jodhpur[26]
12
West Central
Railway
WCR
Jabalpur
2,965
372
₹65,135 million (US$820 million)
138
Jabalpur,[61] Bhopal,[62] Kota[63]
13
North Central
Railway
NCR
Prayagraj
3,151
435
₹87,796 million (US$1.1 billion)
182
Prayagraj,[16] Agra,[17] Jhansi[18]
14
South East
Central
Railway
SECR
Bilaspur
2,447
358
₹63,402 million (US$790 million)
126
Bilaspur,[50] Raipur,[51] Nagpur SEC[52]
15
East Coast
Railway
ECoR
Bhubaneswar
2,204
342
₹87,884 million (US$1.1 billion)
86
Khurda Road,[36] Sambalpur,[37] Rayagada[38]
16
East Central
Railway
ECR
Hajipur
3,628
800
₹59,386 million (US$740 million)
222
Danapur,[31] Dhanbad,[32] Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyaya,[33] Samastipur,[34] Sonpur[35]
17
Konkan
Railway
KR
Navi Mumbai
741
67
₹28,980 million (US$360 million)
Karwar, Ratnagiri
Kolkata And Mumbai are the city with most Zonal Headquarters of Indian Railways . Three of them each

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