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"Mangalore Central" (officially "Mangaluru Central") (Station code: "MAQ") is the main railway terminus in the city of Mangalore. It is one of the major railway stations in Karnataka state and it is the third biggest Railway junction in the Coast after Thiruvananthapuram Central under Southern Railway zone of Indian Railways. And this is the railway station which is in coast under Palakkad railway division. And from this Mangalore there is a railway station named Thokur railway station which is under Karwar railway division of Konkan Railway, and from this Mangalore Central the Southern Railway zone is providing connectivity for Konkan Railway of the Indian Railways.

Mangalore Central railway station is located at Old Kent road, Hampankatta. The other major railway station in the city, Mangalore Junction located at Darbar Hill, Padil, Mangalore 575007.

Rail connectivity in Mangalore was established in 1907. A metre gauge railway track, built through the Western Ghats, connected Mangalore with Hassan, India. The metre gauge track was converted to a broad gauge track connecting Mangalore to Bangalore via Hassan. The re-gauged track was opened to freight traffic in May 2006 and passenger traffic in December 2007. The track network in the Mangalore area is based on a triangular pattern, with Mangalore Central, Mangalore Junction and the Netravati River railway bridge at the vertices of the triangle. A railway siding leads from Mangalore Central to the historic old Railway Goods-Shed in the old Port, Bunder area of Mangalore city. For a year 1929-1930 the longest running train in undivided India originated from Mangalore Central. This was the Grand Trunk Express from Mangalore to Peshawar. The train covered the distance from Mangalore to Peshawar on the Khyber Pass in 104 hours. After 1930 the route of the Grand Trunk Express was curtailed and the train originated from Mettupalayam, Coimbatore.

Trains from here connect the city to prominent state capitals of India like Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram (via Southern Railway zone), Mumbai, Delhi, Ajmer, Ahmedabad (via Konkan Railways) and so forth.