Virar is a very crowded area, among other adjacent stations like Vasai Road because it is a major tourist spot.

It used to be the only railway station to have services to other stations in Palghar District(in which the city of Virar itself is located), Saphale, Palghar, Dahanu and distant southern cities of Gujarat like Vapi, Surat etc.

Since 2013 however, the Western Railway zone Suburban network has been extended up to Dahanu.

Virar was the northernmost station on the first regular suburban train service of the erstwhile BB&CI railway (today's Western Railway), that commenced on 12 April 1867 (from Bombay Backbay to Viraur).

To the south of the station is a modern yard built in 2013 for EMU maintenance.

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