The Headquarters of North-Eastern Railway is located at

Concept

Indian Railways is organised into operational zones, and each zone has a designated headquarters city from which it is administered. The North Eastern Railway (NER) is one of these zones, and identifying a zone's headquarters means recalling the city that hosts its zonal administration.

Application

The North Eastern Railway has its zonal headquarters at Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh. Gorakhpur is also notable for having one of the world's longest railway platforms, reflecting its importance as the NER's administrative and operational centre.

Contrast

• Guwahati hosts the headquarters of the Northeast Frontier Railway, a different zone that serves the north-eastern states, not the North Eastern Railway.

• Shimla is a hill-station town on the narrow-gauge Kalka-Shimla line and is not the headquarters of any railway zone.

• Imphal, the capital of Manipur, is only recently being brought onto the rail map and has never served as a zonal headquarters.

Hence the North Eastern Railway is headquartered at Gorakhpur.