Previous Year Question
Which of the following pairs is/are correctly matched?
Railway Zone | Headquarter |
1. Northern Railway | New Delhi |
2. North Eastern Railway | Gorakhpur |
3. South Eastern Railway | Cuttack |
Select the correct answer from the code given below:
Code:
Only 1 and 2
Only 3
Only 2 and 3
Only 1
Correct Answer: A
Detailed Solution
Pair 1 is correctly matched. The headquarters of Northern Railway is at Baroda House, New Delhi. Its major divisions include Delhi, Ambala, Firozpur, Lucknow and Moradabad.
Pair 2 is also correctly matched. The headquarters of North Eastern Railway is at Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. Its present divisions include Izzatnagar, Lucknow and Varanasi.
There should be no confusion between North Eastern Railway and Northeast Frontier Railway. North Eastern Railway is headquartered at Gorakhpur, whereas Northeast Frontier Railway is headquartered at Maligaon, Guwahati.
Pair 3 is not correctly matched. The headquarters of South Eastern Railway is not at Cuttack but at Garden Reach, Kolkata. Its major divisions are Adra, Chakradharpur, Kharagpur and Ranchi.
Cuttack may create confusion because it is in Odisha, but the East Coast Railway associated with Odisha is also headquartered not at Cuttack but at Bhubaneswar. Therefore, the South Eastern Railway — Cuttack pair is clearly incorrect.