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The railway zone was created on 14 April 1952 by merging Jodhpur Railway, Bikaner Railway, Eastern Punjab Railway and three divisions of the [[East Indian Railway Company|East Indian Railway]] north-west of [[Mughalsarai]] ([[Uttar Pradesh]]). It includes the first passenger railway line in [[North India]], which opened from [[Allahabad]] and [[Kanpur]] on 3 March 1859.<ref name="Indian Railways">{{cite web|author=Asiatradehub.com.com|title=India – Infrastructure Railways|url=http://www.asiatradehub.com/India/railways.asp}}</ref> The Zonal Headquarters Office of Northern Railways is at [[Baroda House]], [[New Delhi]], and divisional headquarters are located at [[Ambala]] ([[Haryana]]), [[Delhi]], [[Firozpur]] ([[Punjab, India|Punjab]]), [[Lucknow]] ([[Uttar Pradesh]]) and [[Moradabad]] (Uttar Pradesh).

 

The first passenger railway line in [[North India]] opened from [[Railways in Kanpur|Allahabad to Kanpur]] on 3 March 1859. This was followed in 1889, by the Delhi–Ambala–[[Kalka]] line. Northern Railways previously consisted of eight divisional zones: [[Allahabad]], [[Bikaner]], [[Jodhpur]], [[Delhi]], [[Moradabad]], [[Ferozpur]], [[Ambala]], and [[Lucknow]], spanning most of North India. With the re-organisation of zones by the Indian Railways, Northern Railway zone came to its present form on 14 April 1952 and it now consists of five divisional zones.