10 Electric trains have been cancelled for two days

Some of the Chennai EMU services will be cancelled on 27th & 28th of June, 2013 due to the installation of new "Electronic Interlocking" system between Vyasarpadi and Korukkupet.
    As announced by the Southern Railway, the following 10 emu trains will be cancelled on June 27 & 28th:

• Chennai beach - Avadi (9.45 pm) 
• Moore Market (central) - Avadi (10.00 pm)
• Moore Market - Pattabiram (10.30 pm)
• Moore Market - Avadi (12.15 am)
• Chennai beach - Arakkonam (9.45 pm)
• Pattabiram - Moore Market (9.40 pm)
• Tiruvallur - Moore Market (9.45 pm)
• Pattabiram - Moore Market (10.44 pm)
• Avadi - Chennai beach (4.25 pm)
• Arakkonam - Chennai beach (4.00 pm)

    Likewise, the train service from Mumbai CST to Chennai central (mail) will reach its destination with a delay of 50 minutes.

Inaugural run of Manamadurai – Chennai Egmore train service

As announced by the Hon’ble Minister for Railways in the Railway Budget    2013-14, new bi-weekly trains will be inaugurated between Chennai Egmore and  Manamadurai. 

   Thiru P. Chidambaram, Hon’ble Union Minister of Finance will flag off the inaugural special of MANAMADURAI – CHENNAI EGMORE SILAMBU EXPRESS at Manamadurai railway station at 20.15 hrs. o­n 22.6.2013, Central/State Ministers, MLAs and other dignitaries will participate.

   The inaugural special Manamadurai – Chennai Egmore will leave Manamadurai at 20.15 hrs. o­n 22.6.2013 and arrive Chennai Egmore the next day.

     The regular service of Train No.16181 will commence from 26.6.2013 ex. Chennai Egmore and from 27.6.2013 ex. Manamadurai.

      T.No.16181 Chennai Egmore – Manamadurai (Bi-weekly) Express will leave Chennai Egmore at 20.20 hrs. o­n Wednesdays/Saturdays and arrive Manamadurai at 07.45 hrs. the next day. Train No.16182 Manamadurai – Chennai Egmore (Bi-weekly) Express will leave Manamadurai at 20.15 hrs. o­n Thursdays/Sundays and arrive Chennai Egmore at 06.05 hrs. the next day.  The composition of the trains will be 1 AC 2-tier,  2 AC 3-tier, 6 Sleeper Class, 6 General Second Class and 2 luggage-cum-brake van coaches. The trains will stop at Tambaram, Chengalpattu, Melmaruvathur, Villupuram, Vridhachalam, Tiruchchirappalli, Pudukottai, Chettinad, Karaikkudi, Devekottai Road and Sivaganga. T.No.16182 will stop at Mambalam also.

Chennai - Karaikudi train service extended to Manamadurai

The train service which is going to be introduced on 22nd june from Chennai to Karaikudi is extended to Manamadurai. This train will start from Chennai (wed, sat) at 8.20p.m. and arrive Manamadurai (thurs, sun) at 7.45a.m. In return from Manamadurai (thurs, sun), it will start at 8.15p.m. and arrive Chennai (fri, mon) at 6.30a.m.

Metro train coaches arrive at Koyambedu

Metro train coaches coming near Central station

Half past midnight on Thursday after a special pooja, the Metro train grandly exited the Chennai Port Trust for Koyambedu depot. Four special modular hydraulic axles, each measuring nearly 100 feet, held the four coaches at ease and toured the city’s roads at just 4-5 km/hr. They travelled past several landmarks, including Chennai Central station, Ripon Buildings and Anna Arch before reaching the depot.

   “Several residents, autorickshaw and taxi drivers cheered and took photographs of the train at Anna Arch and Aminijikarai,” said an official of Namakkal Transport Carrier Logistics, which was awarded the contract to ship the nine train sets from the Alstom unit in Sao Paulo in Brazil. But it was not an entirely smooth ride for the four vehicles carrying the coaches; they halted at two major points – near Muthusamy and Koyambedu bridges – owing to traffic congestion. In the next four months, this train will be put through various tests for the trial run in December between Koyambedu and St. Thomas Mount.

Reservation opened for Coimbatore – Mannargudi train service

The train service between Coimbatore and Mannargudi, which was announced in this year's railway budget, is going to start its journey from 12^th June onwards. To remind the Semmozhi meeting conducted at Coimbatore and to honour the special things of “Tamil” language, this train service has been named as “Semmozhi Express”.

     The reservation for this train starts from today (6/6/2013) morning. The accommodation of 16 coaches for this train includes 6 second class sleeper coaches,  1 three-tier AC coach, 1 two-tier and 1 one-tier AC coaches, 6 second class ordinary coaches and 2 goods coaches. This train will pass through Nidamangalam, Thanjavur, Trichy, Karur, Erode and Tirupur. On arrival to Coimbatore, it will stop at Coimbatore North junction.

Trains originated from Chennai was delayed due to signal problem

The train which started from Chennai on Friday 31^st May to Kanniyakumari got struck in the middle due to signal problem in-between Trichy and Madurai. This train, which should have come to Tirunelveli at 4.50 a.m., got delayed by 2 hours and reached Tirunelveli junction at 6.50 a.m. Likewise, Sendhur Express, Ananthapuri Express and Nellai Express also reached Tirunelveli very late due to this same problem.

New train service for Karaikudi and Velankanni

Southern Railways announced that there will be a new train service between Chennai – Karaikudi and Chennai – Velankanni on 22^nd June.

   Relating to this, Mr.T.R.Balu said that “Manargudi – Coimbatore daily express train service will begin from June 11 onwards. This name has been named as “Semmozhi Express”. The train will start from Mannargudi at 8.10p.m. and will reach Coimbatore the next morning at 5.00. In return, from Coimbatore, it will start at 11.55p.m. and will reach Mannargudi the next morning at 7.55.

   Likewise, from June 22,