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Nadikudi railway station

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Elevation
  
98 m (322 ft)

Operated by
  
South Central Railway

Owner
  
Indian Railways

Platforms in use
  
3

Owned by
  
Indian Railways

Structure type
  
Standard

Opened
  
1930

Tracks
  
4

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Location
  
Dachepalle, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh India

Line(s)
  
Nadikudi-Pagidipalli section Nadikudi-Macherla branch line

Nadikudi is a railway junction in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, India .

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History

Historically, Nadikudi was a metre gauge station. Trains which travelled from Guntur to Macherla used to pass through Nadikudi. Later, Guntur-Macherla section was converted from Meter Gauge to Broad Gauge and a new line was laid from Bibinagar near Hyderabad to Nadikudi, thus making Nadikudi a junction.

Route

Trains that go to Macherla divert at Nadikudi Junction. The town nearest town to Nadikudi is Dachepalle. Nadikudi is located on the Pagidipalli-Nallapadu section of Guntur(GNT), South Central Railway Zone (India) (SCR).

Station category

Nadikudi railway station is classified as a D–category station. It is one of the four Model stations in the Guntur railway division of South Central Railway zone.

Freight

It handles freight traffic and the main commodities include, cement, rice and paddy.

References

Nadikudi railway station Wikipedia