List of Indian Railway zones

Sl. No --- 1
Name --- Central
Abbr. --- CR
Date Established --- 1951, November 5
Headquarters --- Mumbai
Divisions --- Mumbai, Bhusawal, Pune, Solapur, Nagpur

Sl. No --- 2
Name --- East Central
Abbr. --- ECR
Date Established --- 2002, October 1
Headquarters --- Hajipur
Divisions --- Danapur, Dhanbad, Mughalsarai, Samastipur, Sonpur

Sl. No --- 3
Name --- East Coast
Abbr. --- ECoR
Date Established --- 2003, April 1
Headquarters --- Bhubaneswar
Divisions --- Khurda Road, Sambalpur, Visakhapatnam

Sl. No --- 4
Name --- Eastern
Abbr. --- ER
Date Established --- 1952, April
Headquarters --- Kolkata
Divisions --- Howrah, Sealdah, Asansol, Malda

Sl. No --- 5
Name --- North Central
Abbr. --- NCR
Date Established --- 2003, April 1
Headquarters --- Allahabad
Divisions --- Allahabad, Agra, Jhansi

Sl. No --- 6
Name --- North Eastern
Abbr. --- NER
Date Established --- 1952
Headquarters --- Gorakhpur
Divisions --- Izzatnagar, Lucknow, Varanasi

Sl. No --- 7
Name --- North Western
Abbr. --- NWR
Date Established --- 2002, October 1
Headquarters --- Jaipur
Divisions --- Jaipur, Ajmer, Bikaner, Jodhpur

Sl. No --- 8
Name --- Northeast Frontier
Abbr. --- NFR
Date Established --- 1958
Headquarters --- Guwahati
Divisions --- Alipurduar, Katihar, Rangia, Lumding, Tinsukia

Sl. No --- 9
Name --- Northern
Abbr. --- NR
Date Established --- 1952, April 14
Headquarters --- Delhi
Divisions --- Delhi, Ambala, Firozpur, Lucknow, Moradabad

Sl. No --- 10
Name --- South Central
Abbr. --- SCR
Date Established --- 1966, October 2
Headquarters --- Secunderabad
Divisions --- Secunderabad, Hyderabad, Guntakal, Guntur, Nanded, Vijayawada

Sl. No --- 11
Name --- South East Central
Abbr. --- SECR
Date Established --- 2003, April 1
Headquarters --- Bilaspur
Divisions --- Bilaspur, Raipur, Nagpur

Sl. No --- 12
Name --- South Eastern
Abbr. --- SER
Date Established --- 1955
Headquarters --- Kolkata
Divisions --- Adra, Chakradharpur, Kharagpur, Ranchi

Sl. No --- 13
Name --- South Western
Abbr. --- SWR
Date Established --- 2003, April 1
Headquarters --- Hubli
Divisions --- Hubli, Bangalore, Mysore

Sl. No --- 14
Name --- Southern
Abbr. --- SR
Date Established --- 1951, April 14
Headquarters --- Chennai
Divisions --- Chennai, Madurai, Palakkad, Salem, Tiruchchirapalli, Trivandrum(Thiruvananthapuram)

Sl. No --- 15
Name --- West Central
Abbr. --- WCR
Date Established --- 2003, April 1
Headquarters --- Jabalpur
Divisions --- Jabalpur, Bhopal, Kota

Sl. No --- 16
Name --- Western
Abbr. --- WR
Date Established --- 1951, November 5
Headquarters --- Mumbai
Divisions --- Mumbai Central, Ratlam, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Vadodara