Vejendla railway station (station code:VJA) is an
Indian Railway station, located in
Vejendla of
Guntur district in
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 ...
. It is situated on
Guntur–Tenali section and is administered by
Guntur railway division
Guntur Railway Division is one of the three divisions of the South Coast Railway zone of Indian Railways. The division was sanctioned in 1995–96 and was fully operational on 1 April 2003, with its headquarters at Guntur. The ''Rail Vikas Bhavan ...
of
South Central Railway zone
The South Central Railway (abbreviated SCR) is one of the 19 zones of Indian Railways. The jurisdiction of the zone is spread over the states of Telangana, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh. It has three divisions under its administrati ...
.
It is classified as ''NSG6-category'' station in the division.
The station is equipped with a
rail yard
A rail yard, railway yard, railroad yard (US) or simply yard, is a series of tracks in a rail network for storing, sorting, or loading and unloading rail vehicles and locomotives. Yards have many tracks in parallel for keeping rolling stock or u ...
for handling departmental Trains and track machines.
History
The station was once a junction with Vejendla–Tsundur section, which is now a defunct section of the division. As a part of
doubling and
electrification
Electrification is the process of powering by electricity and, in many contexts, the introduction of such power by changing over from an earlier power source.
The broad meaning of the term, such as in the history of technology, economic histor ...
works on the Tenali–Guntur section, commissioned on 26 April 2019, the station was also re-constructed with two new platforms.
See also
*
List of railway stations in India
References
Railway stations in Guntur district
Railway stations in Guntur railway division
Railway stations on Guntur-Tenali line
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