The Northern Railway is one of the sixteen railway zones in India. It is headquartered in Delhi and comprises Delhi, Ferozpur, Ambala, Lucknow and Moradabad divisions. It is one of nine old zones of Indian Railways and has the largest route kilometers of track (6807 km) under its jurisdiction even after the reorganization of the railways into the new zonal structure. It was created on 14 April1952 from the Jodhpur Railway, Bikaner Railway, three divisions of the East Indian Railway north-west of Mughalsarai, and the Eastern Punjab Railway. It covers the states of Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and the Union Territory of Chandigarh.
