Kakinada Port railway station (station code:COA) is an

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station in

Kakinada Kakinada ( formerly called Kakinandiwada, Coringa, and Cocanada; ) is the sixth largest city of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and serves as the district headquarters of the Kakinada District. It lies on the coast of the Bay of Bengal. J. ...

East Godavari district East Godavari is a district in the Coastal Andhra region of Andhra Pradesh, India. Its district headquarters is at Rajahmundry. As of census 2011, it became the most populous district of the state with a population of 5,151,549. In the Madras Pre ...

in the Indian state of

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. It lies on the

Samalkot–Kakinada Port branch line The Samalkot–Kakinada Port branch line is a railway line connecting and of East Godavari district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Further, this section intersects Vijayawada–Nidadavolu loop line at Samalkot. Jurisdiction The b ...

, a branch line of

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and is administered under

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(formerly

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History

Kakinada Port railway station was initially constructed in the year 1882 and new Kakinada Port railway station (Present Station) was built at a cost of and was opened on 26 December 2011. Old port station was being used for goods & other transport activities.

Classification

In terms of earnings and outward passengers handled, Kakinada Port is categorized as a ''Non-Suburban Grade-4 (NSG-4)'' railway station. Based on the re–categorization of Indian Railway stations for the period of 2017–18 and 2022–23, an NSG–4 category station earns between –

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 eq ...

and handles passengers.

Originating express trains

Also see - Trains originating from Kakinada Town

Station amenities

It is one of the 38 stations in the division to be equipped with Automatic Ticket Vending Machines (ATVMs).

References

External links

Trains at Kakinada Port railway station
Railway stations in East Godavari district Vijayawada railway division Railway stations in India opened in 2011 Transport in Kakinada 2011 establishments in Andhra Pradesh Railway terminus in India {{AndhraPradesh-railstation-stub