>DMySon: Adding local short description: "Railway Station in Maharashtra, India", overriding Wikidata description "An important railway station connecting north to south bypassing Mumbai" (Shortdesc helper)

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Adding local short description: "Railway Station in Maharashtra, India", overriding Wikidata description "An important railway station connecting north to south bypassing Mumbai" (Shortdesc helper)

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{{Short description|Railway Station in Maharashtra, India}}
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{{Infobox station
| name = [[File:Indian Railways Suburban Railway Logo.svg|50px|up|link=Mumbai Suburban Railway]]<br>Vasai Road
| type = [[Mumbai Suburban Railway]] station
| image = Vasai Road platformboard.jpg
| image_caption =
| address = [[Vasai]]
| coordinates = {{coord|19.38238|72.83216|display=inline}}
| line = [[Western line (Mumbai Suburban Railway)|Western line]] <br> [[Central line (Mumbai Suburban Railway)|Central line]] <br>[[Vasai Road–Roha line]]
| other =
| structure = Standard on-ground station
| platform = 8
| depth =
| style = Mumbai Suburban Railway
| levels =
| tracks = 9
| parking = Yes
| bicycle = Yes
| baggage_check =
| opened =
| closed =
| rebuilt =
| electrified = Yes
| ADA =
| code = BSR<br>BS (''[[Mumbai Suburban Railway|local]]'')
| owned = [[Ministry of Railways (India)|Ministry of Railways]], [[Indian Railways]]
| zone = [[Western Railways]]
| former =
| passengers =
| pass_year =
| pass_percent =
| pass_system =
| mpassengers =
| services = {{s-rail|title=Mumbai Suburban Railway}}
{{s-line|system=Mumbai Suburban Railway|line=Western |previous=Naigaon|next=Nallasopara}}
{{s-line|system=Mumbai Suburban Railway|line=Vasai Road-Roha |previous=|next=Juchandra|type2=Roha}}
| map_type = Maharashtra
| map_dot_label = Vasai Road
| route_map = {{MSR Western line}}{{MSR Vasai Road–Roha line}}
| map_state = collapsed
}}

'''Vasai Road Junction''' (station code: '''BSR''') is a railway station on the [[Western line (Mumbai Suburban Railway)|Western line]] and [[Vasai Road–Roha line]] of the [[Mumbai Suburban Railway]] network.

[[Vasai]] is a historical suburban town north of [[Mumbai]] and it is located in [[Palghar district]]. It is a much modern part of Vasai Taluka. It is a part of the new [[Vasai-Virar]] city.

It is a major railway station which bypasses Mumbai and connects the trains coming from [[Vadodara]] to [[Konkan Railway]] and [[Pune Junction railway station]] and further towards cities of [[Bengaluru]] and [[Hyderabad]]

==Station layout==

Seven of the eight platforms at Vasai Road are laid out side by side. Platform 1 at Vasai Road is constructed approximately 500 meters south of platform 2, similar to platform 8 at {{stnlnk|Borivali}}.

Vasai Road is an important cross over point between Western and Central railways in Mumbai, as trains from Konkan region and Pune cross over to the Western line here.

Platforms 2–5 handle the local trains in the up & down directions. Platform 6 and 7 handle outstation trains that have a halt at Vasai Road. They also handle two Rajdhani Express trains.

1. 12431/12432 [[Thiruvananthapuram Rajdhani Express]]

2. 22413/22414 [[Madgaon Rajdhani Express]]

Also, it handles [[Humsafar Express]], [[Duronto Express]], [[Sampark Kranti Express]] trains from Kerala side towards Delhi.

Platform 1 is a dedicated platform to handle local trains that start/terminate at Vasai Road. Also platform 6 and 7 holds freight train for going towards Diva. The recent developments at Vasai railway station is the inclusion of elevator and lifts on the old as well as the new footover bridges. Currently, The Western Railway is planning to build a new outstation train terminus. The new terminus, set to come up by 2023, will also ease the present bottleneck at Vasai Road station. The project plan received a boost when Union railway minister [[Piyush Goyal]] on August 23, 2018 announced exploring the feasibility of a new main line terminal at Vasai Road.

==Gallery==
<gallery mode="packed" heights="200px">
File:Vasai Road platformboard.jpg|Vasai Road platform board
File:WAG 9 at Vasai Road Station.jpg|[[WAG-9]] at Vasai Road Station – Platform 6

</gallery>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{commons category|Vasai Road railway station}}
{{Mumbai – Suburban Railway, Western}}
{{Mumbai – Suburban Railway, Central}}

[[Category:Transport in Vasai-Virar]]
[[Category:Mumbai Suburban Railway stations]]
[[Category:Mumbai WR railway division]]
[[Category:Railway stations in Palghar district]]

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>DMySon: Adding local short description: "Railway Station in Maharashtra, India", overriding Wikidata description "An important railway station connecting north to south bypassing Mumbai" (Shortdesc helper)