Tarun Gupta asked 7 years ago
Can any one give me the detailed information of all the abbreviations used in Indian railway?
1 Answers
admin Staff answered 7 years ago
There are lot of abbreviation or short forms used in Railway. I will try to cover as much as possible. If any one else knows more the he or she can also answer and add more information here.
This is the almost complete list detailing of the abbreviations used in Indian Railway:
- AC Air-Conditioned
- ACC Air-Conditioned coach or class
- ACCC Air-Conditioned Chair Car
- ACP Alarm Chain Pulling (!)
- ADE, ADEN Assistant Divisional Engineer
- ADEE Assistant Divisional Electrical Engineer
- ADME Assistant Divisional Mechanical Engineer
- AE, AEN Assistant Engineer (see also Technical terms above)
- AEC Accident Enquiry Committee
- ALK Allowance in Lieu of Kilometrage (in calculating payments for drivers)
- ARMV Accident Relief Medical Van
- ART Accident Relief Train
- ARTS Advanced Railway Ticketing System
- ASM Assistant Station Master
- AW Auxiliary Watering (in working timetables)
- AWS Auxiliary Warning System
- BESA British Engineering Standards Association
- BG Broad Gauge
- BIO-TOIL ‘Biological Toilet’ – eco-friendly toilet with bacterial decomposition facility developed by ICF for use on railway coaches.
- B/L Branch Line
- BOLT Build-Own-Lease-Transfer: private ownership/operation scheme for various freight & passenger services and infrastructure.
- BPS Blue Parcel Service
- CA&FO Chief Accounting and Finance Officer
- CARS Central Accounting and Reporting System (consolidated reports of ARTS ticketing during the day)
- CBO City Booking Office
- CC Chair Car
- CCS Chief Commercial Superintendent
- CCTV Closed-Circuit TV
- CEE Chief Electrical Engineer
- CFTS Chief Freight Traffic Superintendent
- CFS Container Freight Station
- CHA Custom House Agent
- CME Chief Mechanical Engineer
- COIS Coaching Operations Information System
- Conc. Concessional fare (annotation on ticket)
- CARTRAC (not really an acronym) CONCOR’s automobile transport service
- CONCERT COuntrywide Network of Computerised Enhanced Reservation and Ticketing
- CONTRACK (not really an acronym) CONCOR’s container freight service
- COW Career On Wheels: informal classrooms for teaching English, etc., on board trains
- CRS Chief Reservations Supervisor, Computerised Reservation System Commissioner of Rail Safety
- CT Control Tower
- CTI Central Training Institute
- CTR Combined Train Report
- CTU Centralized Training Unit
- CVM Coupon Validating Machine (for ticketing with prepaid coupons)
- C&W Carriage & Wagon (staff for plumbing, electricals, amenities)
- CW Carriage Watering facilities (in working timetables)
- DAL Delhi Avoiding Line, a route for goods trains to avoid the central New Delhi area.
- DCT Domestic Container Terminal (as opposed to the ones equipped for international freight)
- DEE Divisional Electrical Engineer (Sr. DEE = Senior Divisional Electrical Engineer)
- DF Development Fund
- DFC Dedicated Freight Corridor
- DF Defence quota
- DME Divisional Mechanical Engineer
- DP Duty Pass
- DRF Depreciation Reserve Fund
- DRM Divisional Railway Manager
- DRUCC Divisional (or District) Rail Users Consultative Committee
- DSC Dual-stacked (or double-stacked) containers
- E/A Extra time Allowed (slack in train’s schedule for a section)
- EC or ECC Executive Chair Car
- ECR Empty Coaching Rake
- EFC Eastern Freight Corridor
- EQ Emergency Quota
- ESCAP Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
- ESM Electronic Signal Maintainer
- ETA Estimated Time of Arrival
- EY Empty rake (on train monitoring systems)
- F Forward journey (in train number annotations)
- FC First Class, also Financial Commissioner, also Freight Corridor
- FEDL Fully Electrified Double Line
- FOB Foot Overbridge (a pedestrian overpass); Fuel Oil Balance
- FOIS Freight Operation Information System
- FRED Flashing Rear End Device (a warning lamp at the rear of a train)
- FT Foreign Tourist (annotation on reservation charts)
- G Goods
- GAL Goods Avoiding Line
- GIT Goods Intermodal Transshipment (e.g., “GIT yard”)
- GM General Manager
- GR General Rules (railway regulations and operating procedures)
- GRP Government Railway Police
- GSA General Sales Agent (for bookings and Indrail passes sold abroad)
- GTKM Gross Tonne KM
- HDR High-Density Route
- HDN High-Density Network (‘Golden quadrilateral’ and others)
- HO Head Office (a type of quota for tickets)
- HP Handicapped Persons quota
- HSRL High Speed Rail Line (or Link)
- IBP Intermediate Block Post
- IC Inspection Carriage (Saloon)
- ICD Inland Container Depot
- ICTT International Container Transshipment Terminal
- I-ASK Inter-Active Status Kiosk (to check reservation / train status)
- IMPRESS Integrated Multi-train Passenger REServation System
- IOH Intermediate Overhaul
- IOW Inspector of Works
- IRMP Integrated Railway Modernization Plan
- IRP Indrail Pass
- IRS Indian Railway Standard (pre-Independence railway standards body)
- IRVS Interactive Voice Response System
- JOH Junction of Head – point where the tongue rail approaches the main rail in a switch
- JUSBRL Jammu Udhampur Srinagar Baramulla Rail Link (Kashmir Valley railway project)
- LB Lower Berth (annotation on ticket for sleeping accommodation)
- LC Level Crossing
- LHF Long Hood Forward
- LHL Long Hood Leading
- LI Loco Inspector
- L/L Local Line
- LQ Ladies Quota
- LRT Light Rail Transit
- LV Last Vehicle
- MB Middle Berth (annotation on ticket for sleeping accommodation)
- MCO Military Control Office (coordinates ticketing and accommodation for military personnel at some railway stations)
- M/E Mail/Express (on tickets)
- MG Meter Gauge, also Motor Generator
- MGC Mekong Ganga Cooperation group, an association of India and south-east Asian countries, which among other things aim to build a rail link from India to Vietnam.
- M/L Main Line
- MOW Maintenance of Way
- MRT Medical Relief Train (self-propelled medical van for accidents)
- MRTC Mobile Radio Train Communication
- MSL Mean Sea Level
- MTP Metropolitan Transport Project (body studying Calcutta’s transit problems in the 1960’s)
- NETRA Network of Electrification — Testing and Recording Apparatus
- NG Narrow Gauge
- NLT Not Losing Time
- NMG New Maruti Goods / New Modified Goods (wagons)
- NOSTRAC North-South Transport Corridor (proposed Central Asia – Iran – India link)
- NP Non-pooled (referring to freight stock)
- NR ‘Not Received’ (referring to freight consignments delayed or missing in transit)
- NRC Non-railway Customer (any customer other than the zonal railways, for the products of CLW, DLW, etc.)
- NTES National Train Enquiry System (phone-based train/reservation status)
- NTKM Net Tonne-Kilometer
- NV Non-Vegetarian (meal or restaurant)
- NVOCC Non-Vehicle Owning/Operating Common Carrier
- OA Out-Agency
- OCV Other Coaching Vehicle
- OIGS On India Government Service (for mail, etc.)
- Ordy. Ordinary = Stopping passenger (on tickets)
- OSD Officer on Special Duty
- OYWS Own Your Wagon Scheme
- PAR Parcel Service (in indicating kinds of bookings available at ticket agency)
- PCV Passenger Coaching Vehicle
- PF Platform (sometimes P/F)
- PH Parliamentary Quota
- PNR Passenger Name Record (Passenger Numeric Record?) (identifying number for ticket)
- POH Periodic Overhaul
- POL Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricants (designation for oil cargo)
- PQ Pooled Quota
- PQWL Pooled Quota Waiting List
- PRS Passenger Reservation System
- PS Passenger Service (in indicating kinds of bookings available at ticket agency)
- PSCT Port-side Container Terminal
- PU Production Unit
- PWI Permanent Way Inspector
- R Return journey (in train number annotations)
- RA Running Allowance (in calculating drivers’ pay)
- RAC Reservation Against Cancellation
- RCC Railway Convention Committee (also see above)
- R Fee, Res Fee Reservation fee (annotation on ticket)
- RJQ Return Journey Quota
- RLWL Running Line Waiting List
- RMS Railway Mail Service
- ROB Road Over-bridge (i.e., road goes over train tracks)
- ROH Routine Overhaul
- RO-RO (RORO) Roll-on, roll-off service (auto transport)
- ROW Right of Way
- RPF Railway Pension Fund (also see above, organizations)
- RR Railway Receipt, Refreshment Room
- RRF Railway Reserve Fund
- RTR Ready-to-Run (modelling kits)
- RTSA Rail Travellers’ Service Agents
- RUB Road Under-bridge (i.e., road goes under train tracks)
- SATIS Station Area Traffic Improvement Scheme
- S Ch, SF Ch Superfast Charges (annotation on ticket)
- SCRA Special Class Railway Apprentice
- SEB State Electricity Board (any of the state bodies supplying electricity to IR)
- Sh. CC Shatabdi Chair Car
- SHF Short Hood Forward
- SHL Short Hood Leading
- SIL Safety Integrity Level – statistical measure of reliability of a safety system such as an interlocking system
- SLB Side Lower Berth (annotation on ticket for sleeping accommodation)
- SM Station Master
- SPART Self-Propelled Accident Relief Train – 3-coach accident relief rakes with two diesel power packs
- SPURT Self-Propelled Ultrasonic Rail Testing cars
- SR Subsidiary Rules (for railway operation, see GR)
- SRUCC Suburban Rail Users Consultative Committee (for Mumbai suburban services)
- SS Station Superintendent; Substation (electrification)
- SSD Spring Setting Device – spring-loaded mechanism on some switches to ensure proper alignment of tongue and stock rails
- SSE Senior Section Engineer
- S&T Signalling & Telecommunications
- STA
- Suburban Traffic Avoiding line : the fifth line between Borivali and Bandra Marshalling Yard, and between Mahim Junction and Mumbai Central in the Mumbai system.
- SUB Side Upper Berth (annotation on ticket for sleeping accommodation)
- TAAG Trains At A Glance (a timetable publication)
- TAR Trans-Asian Railway (another proposed grand pan-Asian route)
- TBO Town Booking Office
- TC Trailer Car (unpowered car in EMU rake), Ticket Checker / Ticket Collector
- TCF Train Coming From (condition of block instrument)
- TDR Ticket Deposit Receipt (when surrendering ticket for cancellation / refund)
- TEU Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit (for measuring container traffic; a standard 40-foot container is 2 TEUs)
- TGT Train Going To (condition of block instrument)
- TMS Train Management System
- TRS Traction Rolling Stock
- TS Train Superintendent
- TT Timetable
- TTE Travelling Ticket Examiner
- CK Tatkal Quota
- TXR Train Examiner, the officer who issues the BPC and VCC (Train Inspector)
- UB Upper Berth (annotation on ticket for sleeping accommodation)
- UEC Universal Emergency Communication (a system of on-board communication in some trains)
- V Vegetarian (meal or restaurant)
- V Ch, Vou Ch Voucher charges (annotation on ticket)
- VG Vegetarian (meal or restaurant), also Vehicle Guidance (the record of identifying numbers for coaches/wagons that make up a train)
- VLRR Vegetarian Light Refreshment Room
- VT Victoria Terminus (now Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus)
- WFC Western Freight Corridor
- WL, W/L Waiting List; Wait-Listed (ticket issued without confirmed accommodations)
- (Also as a sign: Whistle on approach to Level crossing!)
- WM Works Manager
- W/T Without Ticket
- ZDOT Zero Death On Tracks (campaign to reduce fatalities from pedestrian trespassers)
- ZISTU Zonal Integrated S&T Units
- ZTC Zonal Training Centre
- 2T Two-tier (as in “AC-2T” = airconditioned two-tier coach)
- 3T Three-tier
- Exp. Express
- Jn. Junction (in station names)
- Pass., Pgr. Passenger (train)
- Raj Rajdhani Express
- Rd. Road (in station names)
- Cant., Cantt. Cantonment (in station names)
- Mxd. Mixed (in train names)
- Tr. Ckt. Track Circuit
- Classes of Accommodation
- 1A First class Air-conditioned (also Executive Class)
- 2A Air-conditioned 2-tier sleeper
- FC First Class
- 3A Air-conditioned 3-tier sleeper
- CC Air-conditioned chair car
- SL Sleeper class
- 2S Second-class Sitting
- Ticket Quotas
- GN General
- LD Ladies
- HO High Official / Headquarters
- DF Defence
- RC (RAC) Reservation against Cancellation
- OS Out-station
- RS Road-side
- PH Parliament House
- FT Foreign Tourist
- DP Duty Pass
- HP Handicapped
I hope I have listed the full details. If anything is missing please do comment 🙂