Bhimadole | |
Type: | Indian Railways station |
Style: | Indian Railways |
Address: | Bhimadole, West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh |
Country: | India |
Map Type: | India Andhra Pradesh#India |
Coordinates: | 16.8083°N 81.2607°W |
Elevation: | 220NaN0 |
Line: | Visakhapatnam–Vijayawada section of Howrah–Chennai main line |
Structure: | Standard (on-ground station) |
Platform: | 3 |
Tracks: | 5 broad gauge |
Parking: | Not available |
Opened: | 1893–96 |
Electrified: | 1995–96 |
Owned: | Indian Railways |
Operator: | South Coast Railway |
Mapframe: | yes |
Mapframe-Caption: | Interactive map |
Map State: | collapsed |
Bhimadole railway station (station code:BMD[1]), is an Indian Railways station nearby Eluru city of Andhra Pradesh. It lies on the Vijayawada–Nidadavolu loop line of Howrah–Chennai main line and is administered under Vijayawada railway division of South Coast Railway zone.[2] It serves as a halt for sixteen trains every day.
Between 1893 and 1896, 12880NaN0 of the East Coast State Railway, between and, was opened for traffic.[3] The southern part of the East Coast State Railway (from Waltair to Vijayawada) was taken over by Madras Railway in 1901.[4]
The Mustabad–Gannavaram–Nuzvid–Bhimadolu sector was electrified in 1995–96.[5]
Bhimadole railway station is categorized as a Non-Suburban Grade-6 (NSG-6) station in the Vijayawada railway division.[6]