Abbreviations |
Full Form of Abbreviations Asked in RRB Exams |
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 |
BG |
Broad Gauge |
BIO-TOIL |
‘Biological Toilet’ – eco-friendly toilet with bacterial decomposition facility developed by ICF for use on railway coaches. |
CA&FO |
Chief Accounting and Finance Officer |
CARS |
Central Accounting and Reporting System (consolidated reports of ARTS ticketing during the day) |
CC |
Chair Car |
CCS |
Chief Commercial Superintendent |
CCTV |
Closed-Circuit TV |
CEE |
Chief Electrical Engineer |
CFTS |
Chief Freight Traffic Superintendent |
CFS |
Container Freight Station |
COIS |
Coaching Operations Information System |
Conc. |
Concessional fare (annotation on ticket) |
CT |
Control Tower |
CTI |
Central Training Institute |
CTU |
Centralized Training Unit |
CVM |
Coupon Validating Machine (for ticketing with prepaid coupons) |
C&W |
Carriage & Wagon (staff for plumbing, electricals, amenities) |
DFC |
Dedicated Freight Corridor |
DF |
Defence quota |
DRM |
Divisional Railway Manager |
EC or ECC |
Executive Chair Car |
ECR |
Empty Coaching Rake |
EFC |
Eastern Freight Corridor |
EQ |
Emergency Quota |
ETA |
Estimated Time of Arrival |
FOB |
Foot Overbridge (a pedestrian overpass); Fuel Oil Balance |
FOIS |
Freight Operation Information System |
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 |
HDN |
High-Density Network (‘Golden quadrilateral’ and others) |
HO |
Head Office (a type of quota for tickets) |
HP |
Handicapped Persons quota |
HSRL
IR |
High Speed Rail Line (or Link)
Indian railway |
IBP |
Intermediate Block Post |
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 |
LB |
Lower Berth (annotation on ticket for sleeping accommodation) |
LC |
Level Crossing |
LI |
Loco Inspector |
LQ |
Ladies Quota |
LRT |
Light Rail Transit |
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 |
MOW |
Maintenance of Way |
MRT |
Medical Relief Train (self-propelled medical van for accidents) |
MRTC |
Mobile Radio Train Communication |
MSL |
Mean Sea Level |
NG |
Narrow Gauge |
NTES |
National Train Enquiry System (phone-based train/reservation status) |
OIGS |
On India Government Service (for mail, etc.) |
OSD |
Officer on Special Duty |
PF |
Platform (sometimes P/F) |
PNR |
Passenger Name Record (Passenger Numeric Record?) (identifying number for ticket) |
POL |
Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricants (designation for oil cargo) |
PQ |
Pooled Quota |
PQWL |
Pooled Quota Waiting List |
PRS |
Passenger Reservation System |
PSCT |
Port-side Container Terminal |
RAC |
Reservation Against Cancellation |
RCC |
Railway Convention Committee (also see above) |
R Fee, Res Fee |
Reservation fee (annotation on ticket) |
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) |
RR
RRB |
Railway Receipt, Refreshment Room
Railway recruitment board |
RRF |
Railway Reserve Fund |
RTR |
Ready-to-Run (modelling kits) |
RUB |
Road Under-bridge (i.e., road goes under train tracks) |
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 |
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 |
SR |
Subsidiary Rules (for railway operation, see GR) |
SS |
Station Superintendent; Substation (electrification) |
SSE |
Senior Section Engineer |
S&T |
Signalling & Telecommunications |
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) |
TC |
Trailer Car (unpowered car in EMU rake), Ticket Checker / Ticket Collector |
TDR |
Ticket Deposit Receipt (when surrendering ticket for cancellation / refund) |
TMS |
Train Management System |
TRS |
Traction Rolling Stock |
TS |
Train Superintendent |
TT |
Timetable |
TTE |
Travelling Ticket Examiner |
TQ |
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) |
VT |
Victoria Terminus (now Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus) |
WFC |
Western Freight Corridor |
WL, W/L |
Waiting List; Wait-Listed (ticket issued without confirmed accommodations) |
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 |