Central Organisation for Railway Electrification
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| Government Owned | |
| Industry | Railways and Locomotives |
| Founded | 19 February 1951 |
| Headquarters | Allahabad, India |
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Area served
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India |
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Key people
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I/C Union Railway Minister: Suresh Prabhu, Chairman Railway Board: A.K.Mittal, General Manager CORE: Satya Prakash Trivedi. |
| Products | Railway Electrification |
| Parent | Ministry of Railways, Government of India |
| Website | www.core.indianrailways.ov.in |
The Central Organisation for Railway Electrification (CORE), (Hindi: केन्द्रीय रेल विद्युतीकरण संगठन) has its headquarters at Allahabad, India. It is in overall charge of railway electrification over the entire network of Indian Railways. The organisation has been functioning since 1961 and is headed by a General Manager. Projects units operate from Ambala, Bhubaneshwar, Chennai, Bangalore, Secunderabad, Lucknow, Kota, Kolkata, Gorakhpur, Jaipur, Jabalpur and New Jalpaiguri.
The headquarter office of the Central Organisation for Railway Electrification (CORE) is headed by a General Manager and assisted by Electrical, Signal and Telecommunications (S&T), Civil, Store, Personnel, Vigilance and Finance departments. Presently eight Railway Electrification project offices are functioning, headed by Chief Project Directors, in Ambala, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Lucknow, Jaipur and Secunderabad, Gorakhpur, Danapur and New Jalpaiguri and Jabalpur.
Railway electrification in India began with the inauguration of the first electric train between Bombay Victoria Terminus and Kurla on Harbour Line on 3 February 1925 on the then existing Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIPR) at 1500 V DC. Heavy gradients on the Western Ghats necessitated the introduction of electric traction on the GIPR up to Igatpuri on the North East line and to Pune on the South East line. 1500 V DC traction was introduced on the suburban section of the then existing Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway between Colaba and Borivili on 5 January 1928 and between Madras Beach and Tambaram of the then existing Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway on 11 May 1931. All this was primarily to meet the growing traffic on these metros. The last section of 1500 V DC in India from Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus Mumbai to Panvel and Thane to Vashi was upgraded to 25kV AC on April 2016.
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