Explanation
- A
Only 1 and 2
Only 1 and 2. Northern Railway — New Delhi. North Eastern Railway — Gorakhpur. South Eastern Railway HQ is Garden Reach, Kolkata, not Cuttack.
- B
Only 3
Only 3. Cuttack is not SER headquarters.
- C
Only 2 and 3
Only 2 and 3. SER–Cuttack is the false pair.
- D
Only 1
Only 1. NER–Gorakhpur is also correctly matched.
Summary. Official key is (a) only 1 and 2. SER is not headquartered at Cuttack. Also note: NR — Baroda House, New Delhi; NER — Gorakhpur; SER — Garden Reach, Kolkata; East Coast — Bhubaneswar — the Odisha trap.
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