Kakinada Railway Station

Kakinada (Telugu: కాకినాడ) About this sound pronunciation (help·info) is a city and a municipal corporation in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located 465 kilometres (289 mi) east of the state capital, Hyderabad. It is also the headquarters of East Godavari district. It is nicknamed "Fertilizer City" (owing to the large concentration of fertiliser plants),[citation needed] "Pensioner's Paradise" and "Second Madras". The city had an urban population of 312,936 in 2011,[1] making it the sixth largest city by area and the ninth largest city by population in Andhra Pradesh. Its population consists of 157,573 males and 155,363 females. The sex ratio of Kakinada city is 1046 per 1000 females. It is spread over an area of 190 km2.
Kakinada is part of a Special Economic Zone and a proposed "Petroleum, Chemical and Petrochemical Investment Region (PCPIR)". It is a hub to all the deep sea exploratory activity in the region due to its deep-water sea port and its proximity to the gas fields.[As a city located on the sea shore, Kakinada is a railway terminus. It has railway stations, namely Kakinada Town Junction(CCT) (1.2 km), Kakinada Port(COA) (1.8 km) and Sarpavaram (6.5 km), Kakinada is connected to Samalkot Junction (13 km) which is on the Chennai-Howrah trunk line, where almost all express trains stop to connect Kakinada with the important places of the country. There are direct daily trains running to Hyderabad, Secundrabad(a/c express), Mumbai (Bi-weekly), Bangalore, Chennai, Tirupati, Shirdi(tri weekly) and Bhavnagar (weekly) and also special trains running all through the year to Hyderabad(janatha express) and Ernakulam.
There is a demand for construction of the long waited Kakinada – Pitapuram railway line of 21 km length which connects Kakinada to the main line apart from extending the Kakinada-Kotipalli railway line to Narsapur which will bring rail connectivity to Konaseema region.