Northern Railway
The railways in India, Indian Railways, is a fully government owned enterprise. Indian Railways is headquartered at New Delhi, the capital of India. The Indian Railways was ceremoniously founded on 16 May 1853, in British India, and the first train ran between Mumbai and Thane. Since then, Indian Railways has evolved in multitudes and as of today India has the world’s fourth densest railway network. The Indian Railways is further divided into 17 subdivisions for ease of control and operations, some of which are Central Railways, East Coast Railways, Eastern Railways, Northern Railways, etc. All About the Zone
The Northern Railway is one of the 17 Railway zones of India and the northernmost zone of the Indian Railways. Its headquarter is Baroda House, New Delhi, close to the landmark India Gate. Northern Railways is one of the nine earliest zones of Indian Railways furthermore the greatest as far is track length having 6807 km course. It also travels through the states of Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana,Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh and the and also the Union Territories of Delhi and Chandigarh.
The Northern Railway zone was made on 14 April 1952 by consolidating Jodhpur Railway, Bikaner Railway, Eastern Punjab Railway and three divisions of the East Indian Railway north-west of Mughalsaraiin Uttar Pradesh. It incorporates the principal traveller railroad line in North India, which opened from Allahabad and Kanpur on 3 March 1859. The Zonal Headquarters Office of Northern Railways is at Baroda House, New Delhi, and divisional central station are situated at Ambala in Haryana, Delhi, Firozpur in Punjab, Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh and Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh.
Northern Railways Information
The Indian Railways’ online services are a great facility to passengers as it makes a lot of information such as trains between two stations, seat availability on selected dates, the total fare, etc immediately accessible by people offline without having to make useless trips to the railway station and standing in queues. You can easily do Northern Railways enquiry by logging onto the Indian Railways or Northern Railway website and entering the source and destination station codes and choosing the preferred date of travel. The Indian Railways website has another option which is seat availability between two stations where you have to enter the name of the city and choose the station from the generated list.
Ticket booking on Northern Zone
There is always a huge rush for tickets due to millions of passengers travelling every day on Norther Railways and thus reservation has to be done quiet a lot in advance of the date of the scheduled journey. This always causes a huge demand and thus lack in Northern Railways seat availability in spite of more and more trains being added by the government to complement the growing demand. Thus it is quiet important to do booking well in advance and the best way to do Northern Railways reservation is to do it online as it creates no hassle and is a very simple process. You can visit the official website of Norther Railways for more details.