The Central Railway is one of the largest of the 17 zones of Indian Railways.
Its headquarters is in Mumbai at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus(formerly Victoria Terminus).
It includes the first passenger railway line in India, which opened from Bombay to Thane on April 16, 1853.
The central railway covers a large part of the state of Maharashtra and small part of Southern Madhya Pradesh and North-Eastern Karnataka.
The railway zone was formed on November 5, 1951 by grouping several government-owned railways, including the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, the Scindia State Railway of the former princely state of Gwalior, Nizam State Railway, Wardha Coal State Railway and the Dholpur Railways.
The Central Railway zone formerly included large parts of Madhya Pradesh and part of southern Uttar Pradesh, which made it the largest railway zone in India in terms of area, track mileage and staff.
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