Arrange the headquarters of the following Indian Railway Zones from North to South.
(A) Northern Railway
(B) West Central Railway
(C) Central Railway
(D) Southern Railway
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (A), (B), (C), (D)
(A) Northern Railway — headquarters at New Delhi.
(B) West Central Railway — headquarters at Jabalpur.
(C) Central Railway — headquarters at Mumbai CST.
(D) Southern Railway — headquarters at Chennai.
Note: The table of railway zones gives only the headquarters. Their order from north to south — New Delhi, Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh), Mumbai, Chennai — is read from the map of India.
NCERT (2025-26): “Rail Transport … Indian Railways is the largest government undertaking in the country. The length of Indian Railways network was 67,956 km (Railway yearbook 2019-20). Its very large size puts a lot of pressure on a centralised railway management system. Thus, in India, the railway system has been divided into 17 zones.”
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