page_title: North Central Railway zone
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: North Central Railway zone / History
caption_attribution_description: English: A general map of Indian railways, 1909. Scanned and reduced from personal copy of Imperial Gazetteer of India, volume 25 (Atlas), Oxford University Press, 1909, by Fowler&amp;fowler«Talk» 05:05, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
context_page_description: The North Central Railway is one of the 18 railway zones in India. The largest railway station in NCR is Kanpur Central. It is headquartered at Prayagraj and comprises three divisions: Prayagraj division, Jhansi division, Agra division of the erstwhile Northern Railway, Jhansi division of the erstwhile Central Railway, and new Agra division.
context_section_description: The North Central Railway, in its present form, came into existence on 1 April 2003. The North Central Railway present network extends over a large area of North Central India, covering the states of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Haryana.
  By December 2017, railways for the first time installed 6,095 GPS-enabled "Fog Pilot Assistance System" railway signalling devices in four most affected zones, Northern Railway zone, North Central Railway zone, North Eastern Railway zone and North Western Railway zone, by doing away with the old practice of putting firecrackers on train tracks to alter train divers running trains on snail's pace. With these devices, train pilots precisely know in advance, about the location of signals, level-crossing gates and other such approaching markers.
caption: Extent of the Indian railway network in 1909
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