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Gannavaram railway station (station code:GWM) is an
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station in
Gannavaram Gannavaram is a suburb of Vijayawada in Krishna district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is also the mandal headquarters of Gannavaram mandal which is administered under Gudivada revenue division. It is a neighborhood of Vijayawada in ...
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. It lies on the
Duvvada–Vijayawada section The Duvvada–Vijayawada section (also known as Visakhapatnam–Vijayawada line) is a railway line connecting of and , both in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The main line is part of the Howrah–Chennai main line. The track from Duvvada ...
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and is administered under
Vijayawada railway division Vijayawada railway division (formerly: Bezawada railway division) is one of the three railway divisions under South Coast Railways of the Indian Railways. The headquarters of the division are located at Vijayawada. History It was formed a ...
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South Coast Railway zone South Coast Railway Zone (SCoR) has been announced as the newest railway zone of the Indian Railways and is headquartered at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. The formal notification for operationalization of this Zone is yet to be issued. Jur ...
. It serves one of the satellite stations of Vijayawada railway station. It is one of the 27 rural stations in the state to have
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Classification

In terms of earnings and outward passengers handled, Gannavaram is categorized as a ''Non-Suburban Grade-6 (NSG-6)'' railway station. Based on the re–categorization of Indian Railway stations for the period of 2017–18 and 2022–23, an NSG–6 category station earns nearly
crore A crore (; abbreviated cr) denotes ten million (10,000,000 or 107 in scientific notation) and is equal to 100 lakh in the Indian numbering system. It is written as 1,00,00,000 with the local 2,2,3 style of digit group separators (one lakh is e ...
and handles close to passengers.


References

Railway stations in Krishna district Vijayawada railway division {{AndhraPradesh-railstation-stub