Central Railway zone

CR's headquarters Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus

The Central Railway is one of the largest of the 17 zones of Indian Railways. Its headquarters is in Mumbai at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus). It includes the first passenger railway line in India, which opened from Bombay to Thane on April 16, 1853.

Chhatrapati Shivaji Station

 The central railway covers a large part of the state of Maharashtra and parts of North-Eastern Karnataka and Southern Madhya Pradesh.
The railway zone was formed on November 5, 1951 by grouping several government-owned railways, including the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, the Scindia State Railway of the former princely state of Gwalior, Nizam State Railway and the Dholpur Railways.

The Central Railway zone formerly included northern Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh states and part of southern Uttar Pradesh, which made it the largest railway zone in India in terms of area, track mileage and staff. These areas became the new West Central Railway zone in April 2003.

Major Routes of Central Railway

• Main/Long Routes of Central Railway
  • Mumbai CST – Dadar – Kurla – Thane – Diva – Kalyan – Manmad – Jalgaon – Bhusawal – Akola – Wardha – Nagpur
  • Mumbai CST – Kalyan – Neral – Lonavala – Pune
  • Pune – Daund – Solapur – Wadi
  • Pune – Satara – Sangli – Miraj – Kolhapur
  • Miraj – Pandharpur – Kurduvadi – Osmanabad – Latur – Latur Road

• Shorter/Branch routes of Central Railway are
  • Mumbai CST-Vadala-King Circle
  • Mumbai CST-Vadala-Kurla-Vashi-Panvel
  • Thane-Vashi
  • Daund-Manmad
  • Nagpur-Amla-Itarsi
  • Bhusawal-Khandwa
  • Wardha-Ballarshah
  • Diva-Panvel-Roha
  • Panvel-Karjat
  • Diva-Bhiwandi Road-Vasai Road
  • Badnera-Amaravati
  • Daund-Baramati
  • Puntamba-Shirdi
  • Chalisgaon-Dhule
  • Pachora-Jamner
  • Pulgaon-Arvi
  • Murtijapur-Yavatml
  • Murtijapur-Achalapur
  • Jalamb-Khamgaon

  Notable Trains

  • 2261/2262 Duronto Express – Mumbai to Howrah Super Fast Non-stop Express & run in LHB Coaches (Managed by South Eastern Railway (S.E), 4 days)
  • 12221/12222 Duronto Express – Pune to Howrah Super Fast Non-stop Express & run in LHB Coaches (Managed by South Eastern Railway (S.E), 2 days)
  • 2123/2124 Deccan Queen – Pune to Mumbai, pride of the Central Railway
  • 12115/12116 Mumbai-pune-solapur,SuperFast
  • 11021/11022 Mumbai-pune-solapur Mumbai Solapur Intercity.
  • 12169/12170 Pune-Solapur superfast Pune solapur Intercity
  • 11051/11051 solapur-kolhapur Superfast.
  • 2105/2106 Vidarbha Express – Mumbai to Gondia
  • 2111/2112 Amravati Superfast Express – Mumbai to Amravati
  • 2859/2860 Gitanjali Express – Mumbai to Howrah(Although Engine belongs to [South Eastern Railway] & coaches belong to East Coast Railway)
  • 9311/9312 Indore-Pune Express - Indore to Pune via Baroda, Ratlam, Ujjain (Although coaches belong to Western Railway, gets engiene of Kaylan form Kaylan) (3 days)
  • 1017/1018 Chalukya Express – Mumbai to Yeshwantpur
  • 2137/2138 Punjab Mail – Mumbai to Ferozpur
  • 2701/2702 Hussainsagar Express – Mumbai to Hyderabad
  • 2534/2533 Pushpak Express – Mumbai to Lucknow
  • 2129/2130 Azad Hind Express – Pune to Howrah(gets engiene of bhusaval shed from manmad)
  • 1013/1014 Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Express to Coimbatore
  • Bhimganga Express From Pune to Daund
  • 11003/11004 Rajya Rani Express – Dadar to Sawantwadi
  • 1019/1020 Konark Express – Mumbai to Bhubaneshwar
  • 1039/1040 Maharastra Express – Kolhapur to Gondia
  • 8029/8030 Shalimar-Kurla(T)Express – Lokmanya Tilak Terminus to Shalimar(Although & coaches belong to South Eastern Railway (S.E) And Engine belongs to Eastern Railway (E.R))
  • 2101/2102 Jnaneshwari Super Deluxe Express – Lokmanya Tilak Terminus to Howrah (Although Engine belongs to South Eastern Railway (S.E), but Coaches belongs to Central Railway (C.R))
  • 2289/2290 Mumbai to Nagpur Duranto Exp.
  • 1011/1012 Mahalaxmi Express – Mumbai to Kolhapur
  • 1055/1056 Godan Express – Lokmanya Tilak Terminus to Gorakhpur