SWR Goods Train Manager / Junior Engineer GDCE Recruitment 2026 Online Form (Departmental Only)

SWR Goods Train Manager / Junior Engineer GDCE Recruitment 2026 — 258 posts, departmental only

South Western Railway, Railway Recruitment Cell, Hubballi, has invited applications under General Departmental Competitive Examination (GDCE) Notification No. 01/2026(GDCE) dated 28 October 2026, for 258 posts against 25% of the Direct Recruitment Quota vacancies. This is a departmental recruitment: only regular serving railway employees of South Western Railway and RWF/YNK are eligible. Open-market candidates cannot apply. RPF/RPSF personnel are not eligible, and Law Assistant, Catering Inspector and Accounts Cadre staff are not eligible. The zone of consideration is staff in levels lower than the post's level; same-level staff are eligible for non-safety to safety and safety to safety moves. The qualification must be held on the notification date and endorsed in the employee's Service Register.

Posts and pay

Goods Train Manager (erstwhile Goods Guard), Operating — 247 posts, Pay Level 5, Medical A2, degree from a recognised University. Junior Engineer / Bridge — 2 posts, Pay Level 6, Medical A3, 3-year Diploma in Civil or B.Sc. Civil. Junior Engineer / P.Way — 2 posts, Pay Level 6, Medical A3, 3-year Diploma in Civil or B.Sc. Civil. Junior Engineer / Mechanical Workshop — 5 posts, Pay Level 6, Medical C1, 3-year Diploma in Mechanical/Electrical/Electronics and allied disciplines. Junior Engineer / S&T / Signal — 2 posts, Pay Level 6, Medical A3, 3-year Diploma in Electrical/Electronics/IT/Communication/Computer Science and allied disciplines. The notification states pay levels only; no rupee salary figure is given. PwBD staff are eligible for the relevant posts other than Goods Train Manager and JE/Signal/S&T, on their own merit without relaxed standards. An addendum dated 6 November 2026 confirms the pay levels and PwBD suitability.

Age

The upper age limit is 42 years for General, 45 years for OBC and 47 years for SC/ST, reckoned as on 1 January 2027 — the minimum age is 18 years for all. There is no age relaxation to SC/ST/OBC-NCL candidates applying against unreserved vacancies.

Fee

There is no application fee. The notification itself states "Application Fee: NIL".

Selection

Selection is through a single-stage Computer Based Test, followed by document verification and medical examination. There is negative marking of one-third of the marks per wrong answer. The Goods Train Manager CBT was revised by a corrigendum dated 6 November 2026: 120 questions for 120 marks in 90 minutes — General Awareness 50, Mathematics 35, General Intelligence and Reasoning 35. The Junior Engineer CBT is also a single-stage computer based test; its question count was not read directly from the notification by this site, so it is not stated here. Apply online from 9 November 2026 to 8 December 2026 (11:59 PM) at the SWR GDCE portal linked below.