Pune railway division

Pune railway division is one of the five railway division of Central Railway (India) Zone of Indian Railways located at Pune of Maharashtra state in western India. The other railway divisions are Mumbai CSTM, Nagpur, Solapur and Bhusawal. There are 71 railway stations in Pune railway division.

Pune Division includes four districts of the state of Maharashtra which are Pune, Satara, Sangli and Kolhapur. The division includes one A1 class railway station, two A class stations, 1 B class station, 14 C class stations, 10 D class stations, 31 E class stations and 12 F class stations which makes a total of 71 railway stations in the division.

Ministry of Railways decided on formation of a new Railway Division at Pune on 10 January 1996. The foundation stone laying ceremony for the new division was held on 13 January 1996. Initially the Division was started with jurisdiction over Lonavala-Pune section only. With effect from 1 April 2003. Pune–Daund–Baramati section excluding Daund and Pune –Miraj –KOP section were added which increased the jurisdiction to 503.39. route-km.

Part of DRM office is functioning from campus of IRICEN and remaining offices are housed in a portion of Goods Shed, having entry from Ambedkar Marg. The Phase I of New DRM Office building is under construction and is expected to be ready by middle of this year.

Division has 71 stations out of which Pune is categorized as A1 station & Miraj and Kolhapur are categorized as A stations.

Pune railway division dealt with 3.35 crores of suburban and 3.63 crores of non-suburban originating passengers annually .

Passenger Reservation System (PRS) facilities are available at Pune junction plus 4 Cyber Booking Offices (CBOs) in Pune City i.e. Deccan Gymkhana, Shankarseth Road, Raviwar Peth & Pune Cant. PRS facilities are also available at Khadki, Chinchwad,Miraj, Kolhapur, Satara, Sangli, Karad,Baramati. Two more PRS centres operated by Defence personnel are functioning at Khadki Cantt. & Dehu Road. PRS at Ichalkaranji post office is being operated by their staff.

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