- West Central Railway
The West Central Railway is one of the 16 zones of
Indian Railways , created in April 2003. It was also a private railway company of formerBritish India , which was later nationalized.The former West Central Railway (WCR) was founded in
British India in 1924. It began transporting military goods for the British armed forces in 1928, when the railway fromBombay (nowMumbai ) toPoona was finished. In the late 1930s, the "Indian Railway of Bombay" started passenger transportation, but aswar began, these efforts were suspended. The private company was taken over by theRoyal Army in 1940.The "Railway of Bombay" did not restart its business until India became independent in 1947. On
November 5 1951 , it was split into theWestern Railway (WR) and Central Railway (CR). In the late 1960s three other railway lines were built, leavingBombay in different directions, reachingAhmadabad in the North,Nagpur in the East, and Hyderabad in the southeast.The Western Railway is headquartered in
Bombay Central and the Central Railway inChhatrapati Shivaji Terminus , formerly Victoria Terminus. The CR is the largest Indian rail network in terms of passenger load. Both the services run suburban rail services in Bombay.In April 2003, the West Central Railway was reconstituted from the
Jabalpur andBhopal divisions of CR and the reorganizedKota division of WR. It is headquartered at Jabalpur. The new West Central Railway serves northernMadhya Pradesh andChhattisgarh states, southernUttar Pradesh state, and northwesternRajasthan state. It includes portions of the formerIndian Midland Railway and theGwalior state railways.
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