Between 1893 and 1896, 1,288 km (800 mi) of the East Coast State Railway was opened for traffic.

[2] Visakhapatnam Steel Plant was established in the 1980s and the first coke oven battery was commissioned in 1989.

People inhabiting neighbourhoods such as Aganampudi, Lankelapalem, Paravada, NTPC township, Pharma City and Ukkunagaram needed a large railway station nearer to their homes.

Duvvada railway station serves the population in the southern outskirts of Visakhapatnam.

Lifts are under construction at the platforms Duvvada railway station serves about 108,000 passengers on a daily basis.