List of Miscellaneous Acronyms of Indian Railways

List of Miscellaneous Acronyms of India Railways.

Acronyms/Abbreviation	Full form of Acronyms and Abbreviation
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
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)
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