INDIA - ROADWAYS India - Population, Transport, Communication & Trade perishable goods. Its role in transporting raw materials to industries and finished goods to markets is invaluable. Indian Railways network is the fourth largest in the world. For operations and management, the Indian Railways is organized into zones.
S. No. Zone Headquarters . Northern Railway New Delhi .
North-Western Railway Jaipur . North-Central Railway Allahabad . North-Eastern Railway Gorakhpur . North-East Frontier Railway Guwahati .
Eastern Railway Kolkata . East coast Railway Bhubaneswar . East-Central Railway Hazipur . West-Central Railway Jabalpur .
Central Railway Mumbai (VT) . Western Railway Mumbai (Churchgate) . Southern Railway Chennai . South-Central Railway Secunderabad .
South Eastern Railway Kolkata . South-Western Railway Hubball . South East Central Railway Bilaspur . Konkan Railway Navi Mumbai On the basis of width of the track, the Indian Railways fall under four categories.
. Broad gauge ( . meter width) . Meter gauge ( meter width) .
Narrow gauge ( . meter width) . Light gauge ( . meter width) • The first suburban railway was started in in Mumbai.
• Gatiman Express is the fastest operational train in India. This train connects New Delhi and Agra and touches km/h. The East-West corridor has been planned to connect Silchar in Assam with the port town of Porbandar in Gujarat with , km of road length. The two corridors intersect at Jhansi.
h) Expressways These are multi-lane good quality highways for high speed traffic. Some of the important expressways are; (i) Mumbai-Pune Road, (ii) Kolkata-Dumdum Airport road (iii) Durgapur-Kolkata road and (iv) Yamuna expressway between Delhi and Agra. Mumbai-Pune Road i) International Highways These are the roads that link India with neighbouring countries for promoting harmonious relationship with them. These highways have been constructed with an aid from World Bank under an agreement with the Economic and Social Commission for Asia-Pacific (ESCAP).
These roads connect important highways of India with those of the neighbouring countries such as Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar. Railways Indian Railway system is the