Central Railway- The Zone Of Goodwill

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Railways depict a clear picture of connectivity of different regions. Distant places become nearer via trains. The Central Railway is one of them. It is one of the largest of the seventeen zones of Indian Railways. It is headquartered in Mumbai at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus. The Central Railway includes the first passenger railway line in India which ran from Bombay to Thane on April 16, 1853.

About Central Railway:

The Central Railway Zone was formed on November 5, 1951. Formerly it included parts of Madhya Pradesh and Southern part of Uttar Pradesh and this made it the largest railway zone in India regarding area, track mileage and staff. Now it covers a large part of the state of Maharashtra and small part of Southern Madhya Pradesh and North Eastern Karnataka.

Major routes covered:

The Central Railway takes care of both long routes and shorter routes as well. The main or long routes include Pune-Daund-Solapur-Wadi, Solapur-Wadi-Tandur, Pune-Satara-Sangli-Miraj-Kolhapur, etc. The shorter or branch routes includes Mumbai CST- Vadala-King Circle, Thane-Vashi, Daund-Manmad, Panvel-Karjat, Diva-Bhiwandi Road-Vasai Road, etc.

Connectivity:

The Central Railway zone connects to other zones of Indian Railways too. The narrow gauge Matheran line connects Neral on the main line of Mumbai-Pune with the hill station of Matheran in the Western Ghats, east of Mumbai. Again Neral is linked to Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus by suburban electric trains.

Moreover, the Central Railway is divided into five divisions such as Mumbai CST, Bhusawal, Nagpur, Solapur, and Pune. Each division has different routes and connectivity.