| Sl. No | Name | CODE | Year of Establishment | Route KMs | Headquarters | Divisions |
| 1 | Central Railway | CR | 1951 | 3905 | Mumbai | Mumbai, Bhusawal,Pune, Solapur,Nagpur |
| 2 | East Central Railway | ECR | 2001 | 3628 | Hajipur | Danapur, Dhanbad,Mughalsarai,Samastipur, Sonpur |
| 3 | East Coast Railway | ECoR | 2001 | 2572 | Bhubaneswar | Khurda Road,Sambalpur,Visakhapatnam |
| 4 | Eastern Railway | ER | 1952 | 2414 | Kolkata | Howrah, Sealdah,Asansol, Malda |
| 5 | North Central Railway | NCR | 2003 | 3151 | Allahabad | Allahabad, Agra,Jhansi |
| 6 | North Eastern Railway | NER | 1952 | 3667 | Gorakhpur | Izzatnagar, Lucknow,Varanasi |
| 7 | North Western Railway | NWR | 2002 | 5459 | Jaipur | Jaipur, Ajmer,Bikaner, Jodhpur |
| 8 | Northeast Frontier Railway | NFR | 1958 | 3907 | Guwahati | Alipurduar, Katihar,Rangia, Lumding,Tinsukia |
| 9 | Northern Railway | NR | 1952 | 6968 | Delhi | Delhi, Ambala,Firozpur, Lucknow,Moradabad |
| 10 | South Central Railway | SCR | 1966 | 5803 | Secunderabad | Secunderabad,Hyderabad,Guntakal, Guntur,Nanded, Vijayawada |
| 11 | South East Central Railway | SECR | 2003 | 2447 | Bilaspur | Bilaspur, Raipur,Nagpur |
| 12 | South Eastern Railway | SER | 1955 | 2631 | Kolkata | Adra,Chakradharpur,Kharagpur, Ranchi |
| 13 | South Western Railway | SWR | 2003 | 3177 | Hubli | Hubli, Bangalore,Mysore |
| 14 | Southern Railway | SR | 1951 | 5098 | Chennai | Chennai, Trichy,Madurai, Palakkad,Salem,Thiruvananthapuram |
| 15 | West Central Railway | WCR | 2003 | 2965 | Jabalpur | Jabalpur, Bhopal,Kota |
| 16 | Western Railway | WR | 1951 | 6182 | Mumbai | Mumbai Central,Ratlam, Ahmedabad,Rajkot, Bhavnagar,Vadodara |
| 17 | Kolkata Metro Railway | KNR | 2009 | | Kolkata | Kolkata |