Hyderabad railway division

Hyderabad railway division is one of the Three divisions of South Central Railway zone (SCR) of the Indian Railways.[1][2] The headquarters of the division is at Kacheguda railway station and its zonal headquarters is at Secunderabad. Even though Hyderabad has its own division, the Hyderabad Deccan railway station itself falls under Secunderabad railway division.[3] Secunderabad-Manmad section also known as Kacheguda-Manmad Line is an important railway route connecting the states of Telangana and Maharashtra, most stations on this route are administrated by Hyderabad division and Nanded railway division.

Hyderabad Railway Division
Headquarters at Kacheguda
Overview
HeadquartersKacheguda
Reporting markHYB
LocaleTelangana, India
Dates of operation1977 (1977)–
PredecessorSouthern Railway zone
Technical
Track gauge1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in)
Electrification25 kV AC, 50 Hz
Length653 kilometres (406 mi)
Other
Websitewww.scr.indianrailways.gov.in

History

Hyderabad Division has carved out from Secunderabad Railway Division on 17 November 1977. In 2003 the Hyderabad division was further carved out to form Nanded railway division.[4] The jurisdiction of Hyderabad division covers mainly the erstwhile Nizam's State Railway, passing through Telangana state and Rayalaseema areas of Andhra Pradesh, a small section of 47.63 kilometres (29.60 mi) from Dharmabad to Mudkhed lies in Maharashtra state and a section of 23 kilometres (14 mi) from Panduranga Swamy Road to Raichur lies in Karnataka.[5]

Structure

The division covers a route of 653 kilometres (406 mi) having [6] total of 104 stations. The division is responsible for maintenance of almost all railway assets and estates in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad.

Routes
  • Secunderabad (Excl.) - Gadwal Jn. - DhoneJ Jn. (Excl.) - 352.16 kilometres (218.82 mi)
  • Secunderabad (Excl.) - Nizamabad Jn. - Jankampet Jn. - Mudkhed Jn. (Excl.) - 272.58 kilometres (169.37 mi)
    • Nizamabad Jn. - Peddapalli Jn. (Excl) - 177 kilometres (110 mi).
    • Jankampet Jn. - Bodhan -20 kilometres (12 mi).
    • Devarkadra (Dkc) - Jaklair (JKAR) - 28 kilometres (17 mi).

Under Construction
  • Akanapet (AKE) - Medak (MEDAK) 16 kilometres (9.9 mi)
  • Jaklair (JKAR) - Krishna (Ksn) 36 kilometres (22 mi).

Major stations and Categories

The list includes the stations under the Hyderabad division and their station category[7][8][9][10][11]

Category No. of Stations Names of stations
A-1
Annual Earning > Rs. 50 crore		 1 Kacheguda
A
Annual Earning Rs. 6 to 50 crore		 2 Nizamabad Jn., Kurnool
B
Annual Earning Rs. 3 to 6 crore		 3 Mahbubnagar, Gadwal, Basar, Kamareddy
C
Suburban stations		 9 Sitafalmandi, Arts College, Jamai Osmania, Vidyanagar, Malakpet, Dabirpura, Yakutpura, Huppuguda, Falaknuma railway station
D
Annual Earning Rs. 1 to 3 crore		 9 Dharmabad, Jadcherla, Shadnagar, Umdanagar, Umri, Bolarum, Malkajgiri, Wanaparthi Road
E
Annual Earning < 1 crore		 39
F
Halt Stations		 41
Total 104
gollark: 1-based indexing is highly uncool.
gollark: No, `microsoft` mode is purely a cosmetic thing.
gollark: Wait, no, it's not the metatable, just regular index operations.
gollark: > Store it on the nil metatable instead of globals!That's actually one way to access superglobals.
gollark: They also can't hold many types for serialization reasons.

See also
  • Divisions of Indian Railways

References
  1. "South Central Railway Divisions". Portal of Indian Railways. South Central Railway. Archived from the original on 30 June 2014. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
  2. "Size of South Central Railway to be reduced by half with SCoR". Deccan Chronicle. 11 March 2019. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  3. "Arrivals at HYB/Hyderabad Deccan Nampally". India Rail Info.
  4. http://www.scr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,291,355,966
  5. http://www.scr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,291,355,966
  6. http://www.scr.indianrailways.gov.in/cris//uploads/files/1463044941053-WEB%20DETAILS%20-%20APRIL-2016.pdf
  7. http://www.scr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,1,291,355,999
  8. "Passenger Amenities" (PDF). South Central Railways.
  9. http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/land_amen/PASSNG_AMENT/ID-212.pdf
  10. http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/StationRedevelopment/AI&ACategoryStns.pdf Archived 28 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine
  11. http://www.scr.indianrailways.gov.in/scr/notice/1400243897495_CS%202014%20Notification.pdf
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.