Cycling
On two wheels
Cyclothon · Finisher
100km
Jio Mumbai Sustainability Cyclothon
Season 2 · 2023
27 km
A ride to mark retirement
30 June 2025 · A morning ride on his retirement day.
IRSME · SCRA 1983 BATCH · LEVEL 16
Ashok KumarMisra
General Manager (Retd.), Western Railway. A 37-year journey across eleven cities in the service of Indian Railways, from the steam locomotive workshops of Dahod to the leadership of a workforce of 95,000.
1990 to 2025 · दहोद से मुंबई तक
Every station. A new chapter.
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About
The Officer · IRSME
Ashok Kumar Misra
General Manager (Retd.) · Western Railway
Thirty-seven years on the line
A member of the Special Class Railway Apprentice (SCRA) 1983 batch, Ashok Kumar Misra joined at Jamalpur in April 1984. His batch is equivalent to the 1986 batch of the Engineering Service. His railway postings took him to the steam locomotives of Dahod Workshop in 1990 and, in a turn of poetic symmetry, later to overseeing the creation of a ₹20,000-crore electric locomotive factory in that very town.
Across eleven cities, five railway zones and RDSO, he served as Divisional Railway Manager of Jhansi, Principal Chief Mechanical Engineer of East Central Railway, Additional General Manager of North Eastern Railway, and ultimately General Manager of Western Railway, leading more than 1,100 officers and a workforce of nearly 95,000 across six divisions, from the headquarters at Churchgate, Mumbai.
An engineer by training and an administrator by temperament, he retired on 30 June 2025. To mark his commitment to fitness and discipline, he bicycled 27 km on the morning of his retirement day.
Experience across the railway
Worked across 5 railway zones and RDSO, including 1 Diesel Shed and 3 workshops.
5Zones and RDSO
1Diesel Shed
3Workshops
4Railway Headquarters
Research, Design and Standards OrganisationEngineering · Research · Leadership
Railway zones across the career
Western · Northern · North Central · East Central · North Eastern
Western · Northern · North Central · East Central · North Eastern
Education & Qualifications
1986
Mechanical Engineering
Engineering Council, United Kingdom
1988
Railway Mechanical Engineering
IRIMEE, Jamalpur
Honours · Distinction1988
AMIE · Mechanical
Institution of Engineers, India
1988
AMIE · Metallurgy
Institution of Engineers, Kolkata
1997
MBA · Operations
IGNOU
First Division01 / 05Swipe through the milestones
यात्रा
The Journey
11 Stations · 1990 to 2025Route Map · भारत
उपलब्धियाँ
Achievements
Key contributions01 / 05Drag · Swipe · or use the arrows
Next stop · ExpertiseThe disciplines behind the decisions.
विशेषज्ञता
Expertise
Domains of CommandAssociate Member, Institution of Engineers (India) · Mechanical & Metallurgy divisions
Next stop · Beyond the RailsThe discipline carries on, kilometre by kilometre.Beyond the Rails
A different kind of journey.
Running, cycling, and a commitment to fitness.
Running
One stride at a time
10 km finishes
2023–20266 finish lines
- Indian Navy Heritage Run, Mumbai
- Tata Mumbai Marathon
- WDR Run Together
- Maritime 10K
- Tata Mumbai Marathon
- Tata Mumbai Marathon
From the pen of Ashok Kumar Misra
Thoughts
Along the Way
Reflections by Ashok Kumar Misra
You Observe a Lot by Watching
Why do most of us pass through familiar places without remembering what we have just seen? Perhaps our minds are occupied elsewhere.
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What Does the UPSC Really Test?
Technical knowledge opens the door. Sincerity, discipline and the ability to manage time sustain a career in public service.
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Can "Good" People Deliver Outstanding Work?
When effort, rewards and appraisals do not align, can an organisation still expect outstanding performance?
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Home Is the First School
Long before children enter a classroom, they are learning from the people closest to them. Small habits at home shape a lifetime.
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Who Is to Be Blamed?
Children learn from the examples around them. The everyday habits we show them often speak louder than the advice we give.
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If You Are Not on Time, Can Your Children Be on Time?
The first lesson of the school day may happen on the way there. What do children learn when we leave home late?
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Are Our Children More Intelligent Than Us?
Children have more information at their fingertips than ever before. But is having the answer the same as knowing how to find it?
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Why We Study, What We Study
Have we ever paused to ask why, from infancy to adulthood, we spend so many years studying? Often, students wonder why they must learn subjects they neither enjoy nor believe will ever be useful.
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Selected at Every Stage, and Yet Left Out
Every selection creates a new top and a new bottom. But a rank at six, or at sixteen, says little about the person at forty.
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दीर्घा
Gallery
Scenes from the Line75 photographs across 46 moments
Moments from a life on and beyond the railway.
Next stop · ContactKeep the conversation going.संपर्क
Contact
All Signals GreenEmail
ashok2806@gmail.com
Location
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh