[2] It is a terminal station in Velankanni town in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

It belongs to the Tiruchirappalli railway division of the Southern Railway zone in Nagapattinam district in Tamil Nadu.

[3] It lies at the end of a 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) long Nagapattinam–Velankanni broad-gauge line.

The foundation stone of the line was laid in 1999 and it was completed in 2010 at a cost of ₹48 crore (US$5.5 million).

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