Tilaru railway station is a railway station on

Khurda Road–Visakhapatnam section The Khurda Road–Visakhapatnam section is a railway line connecting in the Indian state of Odisha and Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. The main line is part of the Howrah–Chennai main line. Geography The Khurda Road–Visakhapatnam section ...

, part of the

Howrah–Chennai main line The Howrah–Chennai main line is a railway line connecting Chennai and Kolkata cutting across Eastern Coastal Plains of India. It covers a distance of across, West Bengal, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. Sections The long trunk line ...

under

Waltair railway division Waltair railway division is one of the three railway divisions under under East Coast Railway zone. A section of the division will be part of the new South Coast Railway zone upon operationalization. The Rayagada railway division has been pro ...

East Coast Railway zone The East Coast Railway (abbreviated ECoR) is one of the 19 railway zones of Indian Railways. It came into existence on 1 April 2003. The headquarters of the zone are at Bhubaneswar, Odisha History Consequent upon the parliament's approval, Ea ...

. It is situated beside NH 16 at

Tilaru Tilaru is a village located in Kotabommali mandal in Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh, India. Geography Tilaru is located at . It has an average elevation of 12 meters (42 feet). Demographics According to Indian census, 2001, the demographic ...

Srikakulam district Srikakulam district is one of the twenty-six districts of the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, located in the Uttarandhra region of the state, with its headquarters located at Srikakulam. It is one of the si ...

in the Indian state of

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

History

In between 1893 and 1896, the coastal railway track from

Cuttack Cuttack (, or officially Kataka ) in Odia is the former capital and the second largest city in the Indian state of Odisha. It is the headquarters of the Cuttack district. The name of the city is an anglicised form of ''Kataka'' which literall ...

Vijayawada Vijayawada, formerly known as Bezawada, is the second largest city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and is a part of the state's Capital Region. It is the administrative headquarters of the NTR district. Its metropolitan region comprises NT ...

was built and opened to traffic by

East Coast State Railway The East Coast State Railway was a railway company operating in India. It was a guaranteed company formed in 1890. It had a brief existence. The southern part of the East Coast State Railway (from Waltair to Vijayawada) was taken over by Madras ...

. The route was electrified in several phases. Khurda–Visakhapatnam section was completely electrified by 2002 and Howrah–Chennai route was fully electrified in 2005.

References

Railway stations in Srikakulam district Waltair railway division {{AndhraPradesh-railstation-stub