Ravikampadu railway station

Ravikampadu railway station (station code:RVD ), is an Indian Railways station in Ravikampadu, a village in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. It lies on the Vijayawada–Chennai section and is administered under Vijayawada railway division of South Central Railway zone. Eight trains halt in this station every day. It is the 3885th-busiest station in the country.

History
Between 1893 and 1896, 1288 km of the East Coast State Railway, between Vijayawada and Cuttack was opened for traffic. The southern part of the East Coast State Railway (from Waltair to Vijayawada) was taken over by Madras Railway in 1901.

Classification
In terms of earnings and outward passengers handled, Ravikampadu is categorized as a Non-Suburban Grade-6 (NSG-6) railway station. Based on the re–categorization of Indian Railway stations for the period of 2017–18 and 2022–23, an NSG–6 category station earns nearly ₹1 crore and handles close to 1 million passengers.