Mangalore Junction railway station

{{Short description|Railway station in Karnataka India}}

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{{Infobox station

| name = Mangalore Junction

| native_name =

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Mangaluru Junction

| type = 30px Indian Railways station

| other_name = Kudla Junction

| style = Indian Railways

| image = Mangalore Junction Railway Station 100.jpg

| image_caption = Mangalore junction in 2014

| address = Darbar Hill, Padil, Mangalore, 575007, Karnataka

| country = India

| coordinates = {{Coord|12.87|74.87|type:railwaystation_region:IN|display=title,inline}}

| elevation = {{cvt|24|m}}

| operator = Southern Railways

| line = Shoranur–Mangalore section

Mangalore Junction-Mangalore Central

Mangalore–Hassan–Mysore line

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| structure = At Grade

| platforms = 3

| tracks = 7

| parking = Available

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| electrified = Yes

| accessible = {{Access icon|17px}}

| code = {{Indian railway code

| code = MAJN

http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/coaching/pdf/Station_code.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}

| zone = Southern Railway zone

| division = {{rwd|Palakkad}}

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| owned = Indian Railways

| status = Operational

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| services = {{Adjacent stations|system=Indian Railways

|line=Southern Railway zone|left=Thokur|right=Nethravathi|type=Shoranur–Mangalore section

|line2=Southern Railway zone|left2=Padil|right2=Mangalore Central|type2=Shoranur–Mangalore section}}

| map_type = Karnataka

| map_dot_label = Mangalore Junction

| route_map = {{Mangalore Central–Kozhikode line}}

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Mangalore Junction railway station (formerly Kankanadi railway station(station code: MAJN{{cite web |title=Station Code Index |url=https://indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/coaching/TAG_2023-24/Station_Code_Index.pdf |website=Portal of Indian Railways |publisher=Centre For Railway Information Systems |access-date=25 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240216225807/https://indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/coaching/TAG_2023-24/Station_Code_Index.pdf |archive-date=16 February 2024 |page=7 |date=2023–2024}}) is an NSG–3 category Indian railway station in Palakkad railway division of Southern Railway zone.{{cite web |title=SOUTHERN RAILWAY LIST OF STATIONS AS ON 01.04.2023 (CATEGORY- WISE) |url=https://sr.indianrailways.gov.in/cris//uploads/files/1686913242750-SR%20-LIST%20OF%20STATIONS-2023.pdf |website=Portal of Indian Railways |publisher=Centre For Railway Information Systems |access-date=23 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240323095403/https://sr.indianrailways.gov.in/cris//uploads/files/1686913242750-SR%20-LIST%20OF%20STATIONS-2023.pdf |archive-date=23 March 2024 |page=2 |date=1 April 2023}} It is an important railway station connecting Konkan , Western Ghat (Mangalore Hassan Mysore line) and Malabar railways and is also the gateway to the port city of Mangalore located at Darbar Hill, Padil, Mangalore, 575007. The station is a junction interconnecting Mangalore Central railway station with Kerala in the south, Maharashtra/Goa and Mangalore Sea Port in the north and Bangalore–Chennai in the east. It is the busiest railway junction in the area, as all north- and southbound trains touch Mangalore through this station.

It was formerly called Kankanadi railway station when the city railway station was simply called Mangalore railway station. Later both were renamed as Mangalore Junction and {{stnlnk|Mangalore Central}} respectively to avoid confusion.

This is the first station in the Southern Railway zone after the Konkan Railway zone which ends at Thokur, the previous station up north. The railways wish to develop Mangalore Junction to a world-class station on the 60 acres of land, owned by the railways, that adjoins the station.{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/mangalore-junction-to-be-world-class-station/article6418746.ece|date = 17 September 2014|title=Mangalore Junction to be a world class station|access-date = 14 October 2014|work=The Hindu}}