The South East Central Railway (abbreviated SECR) is one of the 19 Railway Zones in

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. The Zone Office is headquartered at Bilaspur and comprises the Bilaspur,

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and

Raipur Raipur ( ) is the capital city of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Raipur is also the administrative headquarters of Raipur district and Raipur division, and the largest city of the state. It was a part of Madhya Pradesh before the state of C ...

Division.

History

This Zone was formerly part of the South Eastern Railway. It was inaugurated on 20 September 1998 and dedicated to the nation on 1 April 2003.

Divisions

* Bilaspur railway division *

Raipur railway division Raipur railway division is one of the three railway divisions under South East Central Railway zone of Indian Railways. This railway division was formed on 1 April 2003 and its headquarter is located at Raipur in the state of Chhattisgarh of I ...

Nagpur SEC railway division Nagpur Division SECR is one of the three railway divisions under South East Central Railway Zone of Indian Railways. This railway division was formed on 1 April 1952 and its headquarter is located at Nagpur in the state of Maharashtra in India. ...

Infrastructure

Bilaspur Railway Station is a regional hub for the system. It is the busiest junction in Chhattisgarh and the fourth-busiest in

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. The zone's major stations are Itwari railway station (ITR),

Gondia Gondia (also spelled Gondiya) is a city and municipal council in the Indian state of Maharashtra which serves the administrative headquarters of the eponymous administrative district. Gondia is also known as ''Rice City'' due to the abundan ...

(G), (BRD), Dongargarh (DGG),

Rajnandgaon Rajnandgaon is a city in Rajnandgaon District, in the state of Chhattisgarh, India. the population of the city was 163,122. Rajnandgaon district came into existence on 26January 1973, as a result of the division of Durg district. History ...

(RJN), Durg Junction railway station (DURG), Bhilai Power House railway station (BPHB),

Bhilai Bhilai is a city in Durg district of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, in eastern central India. With population exceeding 1 million, it is the second-largest urban area in Chhattisgarh after Raipur. Bhilai is a major industrial city as well a ...

(BIA),

(R),

Bhatapara Bhatapara is a city and a Nagar Palika (municipality) in the Baloda Bazar-Bhatapara district of the state of Chhattisgarh, India. History During the British rule from 1854 to 1864, Baloda Bazar and Bhatapara were part of the Raipur district ...

(BYT), Tilda (TLD), Bilaspur (BSP), Gevra Road (GAD),

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(CPH),

Raigarh Raigarh is a city in Eastern Chhattisgarh. History The tradition preserved by the ruling family of the erstwhile state of Raigarh maintains that the Raj Gond family migrated to this region from Bairagarh/Wariagarh of Chanda district of Mahara ...

(RIG), and

Anuppur Anuppur is a City in northeastern Madhya Pradesh state of central India. It is the administrative headquarters of the Anuppur tehsil Anuppur tehsil is a fourth-order administrative and revenue division, a subdivision of third-order administra ...

(APR), all of which lie on the Mumbai-Howrah and Mumbai-

Katni Katni officially Murwara is a city on the banks of the Katni River in Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh (, ; meaning 'central province') is a state in central India. Its capital city, capital is Bhopal, and the largest city is Indore, with Jab ...

- Bilaspur main lines. Bilaspur, Gondia, Durg and Raipur are the zone's major junctions. By 2007, SECR had added a third rail line between

Durg Durg is a city in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, east of the Seonath River, Shivnath River and is part of the Durg-Bhilai urban agglomeration. With an urban population of 1,064,077, Durg-Bhilai is the second largest urban area in Chhattisga ...

and

, And a tender has been passed in October 2019 to add the fourth line between

and

due to the heavy freight contranment.

Loco sheds

Electric Loco Shed, Bhilai Electric Loco Shed, Bhilai is a motive power depot performing locomotive maintenance and repair facility for electric locomotives of the Indian Railways, located at Bhilai of the South East Central Railway zone in Chhattisgarh, India. Hist ...

* Electric Loco Shed, Bilaspur * Electric & Diesel Loco Shed, Raipur * Diesel Loco Shed, Motibagh (Nagpur)

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