North Eastern Railway zone
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The North Eastern Railway (abbreviated NER) is one of the 18
]Zonal Rail Training Institute (ZRTI) is established in district Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh.[citation needed]
North Eastern Railway is one of the most important transit zones, that is, it is used to take in loaded wagons, especially food grains, from Northern Railway divisions like Firozpur, and move it towards Eastern belt and the Northern Frontier region (
As North Eastern Railway caters to a large area spread from the western part of Uttar Pradesh towards eastern Uttar Pradesh and area comprising western Bihar, it runs many passenger trains for the economically weaker sections. Thus, in its true sense, North Eastern Railway is delivering on the balance between social as well commercial objective of the Indian Railways.
History
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The North Eastern Railway was formed on 14 April 1952 by combining two railway systems the
By December 2017, railways for the first time installed 6,095 GPS-enabled "Fog Pilot Assistance System" railway signalling devices in four most affected zones, Northern Railway zone, North Central Railway zone, North Eastern Railway zone and North Western Railway zone, by doing away with the old practice of putting firecrackers on train tracks to alert train divers running trains on snail's pace. With these devices, train pilots precisely know in advance, about the location of signals, level-crossing gates and other such approaching markers.[2]
Divisions
Major stations in North Eastern Railway zone
Category of station | No. of stations | Names of stations |
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A-1 category | 5 | Gorakhpur Junction, Basti, Lucknow Junction, Chhapra Junction, Mau Junction |
A category | 12 | Azamgarh, Ballia, Padrauna, Farrukhabad, Belthara Road, Deoria Sadar,Siwan Junction, Gonda Junction, Khalilabad, Kathgodam, Rudrapur City |
B category | 6 | Ghazipur City (GCT),Banaras (BSBS), Varanasi city (BCY), Bhatni (BTT), Babhnan (BV), Suraimanpur |
C category
(suburban station) |
- | - |
D category[3] | - | - |
E category[3] | - | - |
F category
(halt station) |
- | Kerakat, Ghazipur Ghat, Paniara, Naik Dih, Hurmujpur, Fatehpur Atwa, Paligarh |
Total | - | - |
Area covered
NER Coverd UP & Bihar also Nepal border in three part with three division work (Varanasi, Lucknow & Izzatnagar).
- 1 Western Uttar Pradesh as (Mathura, Hathras City, Kasganj, Farrukhabad, Kanpur etc.).
- 2 Northern Uttar Pradesh & Awadh as (Kathgodam, Bareilly, Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheri Lucknow, Gonda, Ayodhya etc.).
- 3 All purvanchal region & North western Bihar as (Gorakhpur, Jaunpur, Azamgarh, Varanasi, Allahabad, Mau, Chapra etc.)
Re-organisation
On 1 October 2002, Samastipur and
Administration
The administrative head of the zone is called General Manager, currently Shri Ashok Kumar Mishra (01/07/2022).[4]
Trains
Some trains operated by North Eastern Railway zone are as follows:
Number | Train Name | Starting Station | Terminating Station |
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12533/12534 | Pushpak Express | Lucknow Jn. NER | Mumbai CSMT |
22545/22546 | Lucknow–Dehradun Vande Bharat Express | Lucknow Jn. NER | Dehradun railway station |
22549/22550 | Gorakhpur - Prayagraj (Allahabad) Vande Bharat Express | Gorakhpur Jn. | Prayagraj Junction |
22581/22582 | Ballia–New Delhi Express | Ballia railway station | New Delhi railway station |
Loco sheds
- Diesel & Electric Loco Shed, Gonda
- Diesel Loco Shed, Izzatnagar
- Electric Loco Shed, Gorakhpur
- Electric Loco Shed, Saiyedpur Bhitri
Cultural importance
North Eastern Railway passes through/connects to many important tourist and cultural centres like
See also
- All India Station Masters' Association (AISMA)
- Zones and divisions of Indian Railways
References
- ^ Rao, M.A. (1988). Indian Railways, New Delhi: National Book Trust, pp.42-4
- ^ Indian Railways to use GPS-enabled devices to fight fog this season, The Economic Times, 12 Dec 2017.
- ^ a b "Vijayawada Division" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 January 2016.
- ^ "North Eastern Railway". Archived from the original on 24 December 2017. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
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