Chennai Madurai AC Duronto Express

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Overview
Service typeAC Duronto
StatusOperating
Locale Tamil Nadu
First serviceDecember 15, 2012;6 years ago (2012-12-15) [1]
Current operator(s) Southern Railway zone
Route
Start Chennai Central (MAS)
Stops1 [lower-alpha 1]
End Madurai Junction (MDU)
Distance travelled555 km (345 mi)
Average journey time8 hrs 30 minutes
Service frequencyBi-Weekly
Train number(s)22205/22206
On-board services
Class(es) First AC, Second AC, Third AC
Seating arrangementsAvailable
Sleeping arrangementsAvailable
Catering facilitiesNot Available
Observation facilitiesLarge Windows
Entertainment facilitiesNot Available
Baggage facilitiesAvailable
Technical
Track gauge 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in)
Electrification Yes
Operating speed71 km/hr (45 mph)

Chennai Madurai Duronto Express is a Duronto Express belonging to Indian Railways which is operated fully Air-Conditioned Superfast Bi-weekly train connecting Chennai and Madurai via Salem in Southern Railway zone.

Duronto Express Express train in India

Duronto Express is a category of long-distance non stop source to destination trains run by the Indian Railways. Initially these trains did not have any ticketing stops between the origin and the destination, but since January 2016 it is possible to book tickets from those technical stops. "Duronto" means "Non-stop" in Bangla. These trains' coaches have characteristic yellow-green livery which contains a bi-meaning signature which are a field full of flower and a river flowing over it, 2nd meaning is a boy is running on the fields which signifies the meaning of Duronto. Duronto Express services connect the several metros and major state capitals of India. As of now, there are only two Duronto expresses that runs on daily basis, one being Nagpur-CSMT Duronto and other one being Mumbai Central-Rajkot AC Duronto.

Indian Railways Indian state-owned enterprise, owned and operated by the Government of India

Indian Railways (IR) is India's national railway system operated by the Ministry of Railways. It manages the fourth largest railway network in the world by size, with a route length of 67,368-kilometre (41,861 mi) and total track length of 121,407-kilometre (75,439 mi) as of March 2017. Routes are electrified with 25 kV AC electric traction while 33% of them are double or multi-tracked.

Southern Railway zone

The Southern Railway, headquartered at Chennai, is one of the 18 zones of Indian Railways. It is the earliest of the 18 zones of the Indian Railways created in independent India. It was created on 14 April 1951 by merging three state railways, namely, the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway, the South Indian Railway Company, and the Mysore State Railway. The South Indian Railway was originally created in the British colonial times as Great Southern India Railway Co founded in Britain in 1853 and registered in 1859. Its original headquarters was in Tiruchirappalli (Trichy) and was registered as a company in London only in 1890. At present, after re-organization of existing railway zones and creation of new zones undertaken by the Indian Railways between 2002–03, Southern Railway has emerged as the 2nd largest zone after undertaking some gauge conversion projects and creation of new lines.

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Background

The ever-growing inflow to the State Capital from Madurai and its neighboring districts and the heavy rail traffic on the Tambaram-Villupuram-Madurai section, [2] is the prime reason behind operating the train from Chennai Central. [3] And hence the fact that it takes a longer route via Salem, Namakkal, Karur, Dindugal. The train makes only one commercial halt at Salem Junction across the Chennai-Salem-Madurai line. [4] [5] [6] It is now running with LHB rakes (Linke Hoffman Busch) from 26 JUNE 2018 and is maintained at Chennai Central.

Coach Composition

The train consists of one 1 AC First/Executive Class (1A), 2 AC Two-tier (2A), 9 AC Three-Tier (3A) and 2 EOG.

LocoEOGB9B8B7B6B5B4B3B2B1A2A1H1EOG

Notes

  1. ↑ Technical Halt.

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Pandian Express

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Vaigai Express train in India

The Vaigai Express is a super fast Intercity express train running daily between Madurai and Chennai via Tiruchirappalli operated by Southern Railway zone of the Indian railways. The name 'Vaigai Express' has been always popular among not only rail users but also among rail fans of two different generations as the train has won the hearts of thousands of people who have known and experienced it from the early days. Due to the demand for a day train between Madurai and Madras, which gradually began to increase from the 1970s, the Southern Railway decided to introduce a super fast train for the first time on the MG in Southern railway. This train got updated with modern LHB coaches from 30 June 2019.

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References

  1. ↑ "New Duronto train services to Madurai, T'puram from December 15". The Times of India . 13 December 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
  2. ↑ "Chennai-Madurai Duronto by October". IBNLive.in. 14 July 2011. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
  3. ↑ "Travel Chennai-Madurai non-stop on Duronto Express". The New Indian Express. 23 November 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
  4. ↑ "Chennai-Madurai Duronto Express likely from Nov". The Hindu. 14 July 2011. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
  5. ↑ "Madurai-Chennai Central Duronto Express likely from June". The Hindu. 18 May 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
  6. ↑ "Two more non-stop Duronto trains from city". The Hindu. 10 December 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
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