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The newly carved West Central
Railway Zone with its headquarters
at Jabalpur comprises of Jabalpur
and Bhopal divisions of erstwhile
Central Railway and Kota division
of erstwhile Western Railway. The
formal gazette notification
announcing the formation of this
new zonal railway was issued on
4th July 2002 by the Ministry of
Railway, Govt. of India.
 Mumbai-Howrah
route via Itarsi- Jabalpur in the
west east direction and from Mathura (excluding to Nagda
(excluding on Delhi-Mumbai route
via Ratlam forming a part of one
of the important diagonal and side
of golden quadrilateral of Indian
Railways.
In the north-south
direction the zone has Bina
(Including)-Bhopal-Itarsi
(Including section of Delhi-
Chennai trunk route. In addition
important freight corridor of New
Kati On-Line and branch line
sections of Katni-Singrauli,
Satna-Rewa, Jukehi-Kymore,
Bina-Guna-Kota, Kota- Chanderiya
(excluding) and Maksi (excluding
Guna-Gwalior (excluding are also
within the jurisdiction of this
new zonal railway-West Central
Railway caters to 39 districts (24
of M.P.13 of Rajasthan and 2 of U.
P.). It has a total route
kilometers of 2911 kms. of which
1328 route kms. are electrified.
Important stations served by this
railway include Jabalpur, Bhopal,
Kota, Habibganj, Itarsi, Bina,
Vidisha, Ganjbasoda, Hoshangabad,
Harda, Guna, Katni, Satna, Saugor,
Maihar, Narsinghpur, Madanmahal,
Pipariya, Damoh, Sawai Madhopur,
Gangapur city, Bharatpur, Ramganj
Mandi, Baran, Chau Mahla, Shri
Mahavirji etc. West Central
Railway has a fair balance of
passenger and freight traffic. On
the freight side the most
important originating traffic is
of cement which is loaded in
Satna-Rewa cluster of Jabalpur
division. Lakheri, Dadhdevi, Morak
stations of Kota division. Other
originating commodities handled
include bauxite, limestone,
dolomite and clinker on Jabalpur
division, LPG and POL on Bhopal
division fertifilizer on Kota and
Bhopal divisions, deoiled cake on
Bhopal and Jabalpur divisions and
food grain on Bhopal division. The
daily average loading of this
Railway is about 1280 Eight wheeler
wagons, the annual originating
revenue earning loading is
approximately 29 million tones
whereas the originating annual
goods earning is approximate
rupees. 1811.85 crores. On the
passenger side this railway deals
with 376 no. of mail express and
96 no of passenger trains
including 7+1 pair of Rajdhani/Shatabdi
trains and 2 pair of Jan-Shatabdi
trains. Approx. 109 million
passengers originate their journey
every year on this railway giving
a passenger earning of approx. Rs.
600.45 crores. After accounting for
other coaching earnings including
parcel traffic of Rs. 46.03 crores
the overall total annual earning
of this railway comes to approx Rs.
2504crores.
 West Central Railway has two
major marshalling yards at New
Katni Jn. And Itarsi Jn. It also
has three electric loco sheds at
New Katni, Itarsi and Tuglakabad
with a total fleet of 349 electric
locomotives and two diesel loco
sheds at New katni and Itarsi with
a total fleet of 349 diesel
locomotives to keep the traffic
moving on its routes, To keep the
fleet of nearly 700 locomotives in
good fettle all the time is a
mammoth task and a challenge which
is successfully met by this
railway. In addition there is a
coach repair workshop at Bhopal
and a wagon workshop at Kota which
are engaged in the activity of
heavy repairs to passenger coaches
and POH of goods wagons especially
of oil tank wagons.
This railway has a total
officers and staff strength of
58730(On Roll) who are responsible to
ensure that the wheel of the rail
is always moving. They
work round the clock with
sincerity and devotion to fulfill
the aspirations of people from Harot to Mahakoshal and from Malwa
to Bundelkhand. If you are fond of
the call of jungle then W. C.
Railway promises to take you to
national reserve forests of
Kanha-Kisli, Bandhavgrh,
Ranthambore, and Shivpur and bird
sanctuary of bharatpur. If you
wish to enjoy the scenic beauty of
hills then visit Pachmarhi. If you
have interest in historical
monuments then plan your trip of
Khajuraho, Sanchi or Bhimbetka. If
you are religious minded you may
like to pay homage at Maa Sharda
Devi Temple at Maihar, Shri Raj
Rajeshwari temple at Shridham,
Mahdev Temple near Bandakpur, jain
temple at shri Mahavirji or Birla
Temple at Bhopal or Nagda. For
leisure tourism one may think of
pleasant boating between marble
rocks near Jabalpur or visit Kota
and bundi forts.
The officers and staff of West
Central Railway are resolved to
fulfill the aspiration of people
through their dedicated effort and
team work and are committed to
lead this railway in the pursuit
of excellence through
modernization and economy. |
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