Vatakara railway station (also known as Badagara railway station)(station code: BDJ[2]) is an NSG–3 category Indian railway station in Palakkad railway division of Southern Railway zone.

[3] It is a major railway station serving the City of Vatakara, Kerala.

It lies in the Shoranur–Mangalore section of the Southern Railway zone.

[4] Trains halting at the station connect the town to prominent cities in India such as Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Chennai, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kozhikode, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, New Delhi, Mangalore, Kolkata and so forth.

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