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Top speed. 100 km/h (62 mph) Chennai Suburban Railway Network. The Chennai Suburban Railway is a commuter rail system in the city of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, operated by the Southern Railways branch of Indian Railways. It is the second largest suburban rail network in terms of route length and the third largest in terms of commuters in India.
The Chennai MRTS line bears greater resemblance to the suburban railway than a rapid transit line as it uses the same broad gauge (5 ft 6in) as the Chennai Suburban Railway system, allowing the usage of same train-sets across the existing suburban lines and the MRTS. [7] [53] Ballastless track is used between Tirumayilai and Velachery stations.
Chennai Central is a terminal station with bay platforms. The average length of railway tracks in the station is 600 metres. [30] The entire complex has 17 platforms to handle long-distance trains with 5 platforms exclusively for suburban trains. The total length of the station is about 950 m.
The South Line of Chennai Suburban Railway is the fourth longest suburban line that runs southwards from Chennai (Madras) City. It is the oldest suburban line of Chennai (Madras), opened in 1931. Suburban services terminate at Chengalpattu (Chingleput) and MEMU services at Puducherry. The capacity utilisation of Chennai Beach-Egmore-Tambaram ...
The North Line of the Chennai Suburban Railway is the third-longest suburban rail line in the system, running north from Chennai Central MMC to Bitragunta in Andhra Pradesh. Suburban services terminate at Sullurpeta and MEMU services operate to Bitragunta. As of 2013, more than 100,000 people use trains on the 46-km line between Chennai Central ...
West Line, Chennai Suburban. The West line of Chennai Suburban Railway is the second longest line running west from MGR Chennai Central (Madras Central) to Jolarpettai covering a distance of 213 km. Suburban services terminate at Arakkonam and MEMU services run to Jolarpettai. As of 2009, around 400,000 commuters travel every day on the 171 ...
The first railway station to be built in Madras was the Royapuram station constructed in 1855 though the city had a railway line that dates back to the 1840s. Fundamentally, Chennai has 4 suburban railway lines, [2] namely North line, West line, South line and MRTS line. The South West line, West North line and West South line are merely minor ...
West North Line, Chennai Suburban. The North west Line of Chennai Suburban Railway is the fifth longest line that runs west–north from Chennai City. Suburban services terminate at Tiruttani and MEMU services run till Tirupati, across the state line in Andhra Pradesh .