Overview
It was created on 2 October 1966 as the ninth zone of Indian Railways. The six divisions of this railway have a total 5,752 route kilometers of track. Current General Manager of S.C. Railway is Mr. G.N.ASTHANA, an officer of IRSME. From the days of steam-hauled locomotives and wooden plank seats, South Central Railway has come a long way, modernizing its system with the state of the art high-powered Diesel and Electric Locomotives, high speed telescopic Passenger Coaches, and higher axle load wagons, higher capacity track in all important routes, LED based multiple aspect color light signaling with panel interlocking & solid state interlocking, and digital microwave and optic fibre cable communication system, ISDN exchanges etc.Over the years, South Central Railway has attained sufficient transportation output with adequate infrastructure development and technological upgrading to serve the regions in its jurisdiction. Safe operation of trains, expansion of network, modern passenger amenities, punctuality of trains, courteous service and cleanliness in stations and trains remain always the thrust areas of this Railway. Being a service oriented organization, South Central Railway provided Computerized Passenger Reservation System at 85 Stations/locations covering 96% of the berths available. In the arena of information dissemination to the rail customers, it has provided "139" Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) for Reservation and train enquiry, National Train Enquiry System (NTES) for real-time information on movement of trains, Passenger Operated Enquiry Terminals (POET) with information on availability of accommodation and confirmation and Close Circuit Television (CCTV) for real time reservation availability status at all important stations in its system.
For mass movement of freight, S.C. Railway has introduced high horsepowered diesel and electric locomotives and high speed, higher axle load Box-N-Wagons.
In 2008 South Central Railways also had the privilege to be the first one to implement wireless MU Coupler system supplied by Ms Lotus Wireless Technologies, permitting Longer freight train delivering higher capacity.The system was first implemented in Diesel Locomotive in 2008 followed by installation on Electric Locomotive in 2011 at Electric Loco Shed, Kazipet.The Trains equipped with these system are in use at Badrachalam region in the South Central Railways.
South Central Railway plays a pivotal role as a catalyst for agricultural and industrial development in the Southern peninsula apart from fostering the growth of trade and commerce including import/export through ports by connecting sea ports with their hinder land and inland container depots. Its reliable and comfortable passenger services for long and short distance travel by introducing many super fast and inter city trains helps transform the society by catering to their personal, business, educational and tourism purposes. South Central Railway was formed on 2 October 1966, by grouping the Vijayawada and Hubli Divisions of Southern Railway and Secuderabad and Solapur Division of Central Railway. Jurisdictional adjustments were made in October 1977 by merging Guntakal Division of the Southern Railway with South Central Railway and transferring Solapur Division back to Central Railway. Secunderabad Division was split in February 1978 into two Divisions Secunderabad and Hyderabad to facilitate effective operational and administrative control. On 1 April 2003, the newly formed Guntur division and Nanded Division of South Central Railway became operational and Hubli Division was transferred to the newly formed South Western Railway. Presently, the South Central Railway has six divisions, namely Secunderabad, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Guntur, Guntakal and Nanded with 5752 Route km of which 1604 Rkm are electrified. Vijayawada is the largest railway junction in India and the most important station of the South Central Railway.vijayawada is heart of south central railways it is more important than secundrabad earning more income than rest of the other
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