RRB Station Master 2026 Notification

RRB Station Master 2026 vacancies

CEN No. 08/2026 invites online applications for the post of Station Master in various zonal railways. Annexure-B lists 1,265 vacancies across 21 RRBs: UR 542, SC 176, ST 104, OBC 296 and EWS 147, with 133 reserved for ex-servicemen. The 'vacancies at a glance' table on page 3 prints a total of 1,215, so the figure may be corrected by RRB. The largest shares are with RRB Mumbai (125 for Central Railway), Jammu-Srinagar (122), Chennai (119) and Thiruvananthapuram (114). Vacancies may increase or decrease as per the needs of the Railway Administration.

Eligibility and age limit

You need a graduate degree from a recognised university, or its equivalent, by the closing date of 25 November 2026; those awaiting the final result should not apply. The age limit is 20 to 33 years on 1 January 2027, which for UR and EWS means a date of birth between 2 January 1994 and 1 January 2007. OBC-NCL candidates may be born from 2 January 1991 and SC/ST from 2 January 1989. Serving railway staff with three years' service can apply up to 40 (UR/EWS), 43 (OBC-NCL) or 45 (SC/ST), and widowed, divorced or judicially separated women up to 35, 38 or 40.

Medical standard for Station Master

The post needs medical standard A-2: physically fit in all respects, distant vision of 6/9, 6/9 and near vision of Sn 0.6, 0.6 without glasses, and passing tests for colour, binocular, night and myopic vision. Candidates who have had Lasik or any other surgery to correct their eyesight are not eligible. Everyone called for the CBAT must bring a medical certificate from an eye specialist in the format of Annexure VI (Annexure VI A for ex-servicemen); without it you cannot sit the CBAT.

Exam pattern and selection

Selection has a single-stage CBT, a Computer Based Aptitude Test, document verification and a medical examination. The CBT has 100 one-mark questions in 120 minutes: 60 on basic science, mathematical and analytical capability, 20 on logical capability and 20 on mental reasoning. One third of a mark is deducted for each wrong answer and scores are normalised across shifts. The CBT can be taken in English, Hindi or 13 regional languages. Candidates up to 8 times the vacancies of each RRB go to the CBAT, where a T-score of 42 is needed in every test battery. Final merit gives 70% weight to the CBT and 30% to the CBAT.

Application fee and refund

General candidates pay ₹500, of which ₹400 is refunded after appearing in the CBT. Female, transgender, ex-servicemen, SC, ST, minority and economically backward class (EBC) candidates pay ₹250, which is refunded after appearing in the CBT. Refunds go only to the bank account seeded with your Aadhaar, after bank charges. The fee is paid online by net banking, card or UPI. EBC here means a family income below ₹50,000 a year and is not the same as OBC or EWS.