Udupi railway station is a railway station inUdupi district,Karnataka. Its code isUD. It serves the pilgrims visiting famous Krishna Matha (Krishna Temple) atUdupi and the university town ofManipal, which is 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) south from the station and Udupi. The station consists of two platforms. Most of the platform is not sheltered from the heavy rains that Udupi receives.[1] The Konkan railway route in which trains are pulled by Diesel locomotives (Diesel engines) will now be powered by Electric locomotives after electrification of this route. Konkan railway conducted a trial run of Electric locomotives on 13 January 2020, Monday fromThokur railway station to Udupi railway station.[2] The electric locomotive started from Thokur at 4p.m. and reached Udupi at 6p.m. On return journey the electric locomotive reached Thokur at 8p.m.
Udupi railway station has a multipurpose stall and refreshment stall on platform 1. It has a restaurant at basement near parking area. Udupi railway station has a fresh up facility which passengers can use to take rest on an hourly basis.[3] The Udupi railway station has cashless facilities to help passengers not carrying cash (currency notes).[4] As a part of initiative to become green, Udupi railway station has installed solar power generation of 7kW out of station's requirement of 48 kW on 5 June 2016.[5] Udupi railway station has retiring room facility.
