Palasa railway station

Palasa railway station, located in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, serves Palasa-Kasibugga and surrounding areas in Srikakulam district.

During the period 1893 to 1896, 1,287 km (800 mi) of railway tracks covering the entire coastal stretch from Cuttack to Vijayawada, was built and opened to traffic by East Coast State Railway

The Palasa-Tilaru sector was electrified in 1998-99.

Palasa railway station has a double-bedded non-AC retiring room.Other amenities at the railway station include computerized reservation offices, telephone booth, cloak room, waiting room, vegetarian and non-vegetarian referesment rooms and book stall.

The Bengal Nagpur Railway was nationalized in 1944.

 Eastern Railway was formed on 14 April 1952 with the portion of East Indian Railway Company east of Mughalsarai and the Bengal Nagpur Railway.

In 1955, South Eastern Railway was carved out of Eastern Railway. 

It comprised lines mostly operated by BNR earlier.Amongst the new zones started in April 2003 were East Coast Railwayand South East Central Railway.

 Both these railways were carved out of South Eastern Railway.