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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.
A map of the Chennai suburban train system and interconnecting bus routes A graphical representation of the different public transit railway lines inside city limits in Chennai (including the Chennai Suburban Railway and the Chennai Metro) and their connections. The first railway station in Madras city was opened at Royapuram in 1853. [18]
The first EMU starts from Tambaram at 4:50 and the last train at 23:40. Peak hour headway is 15 minutes. Chengalpattu–Tambaram; The first EMU starts from Chengalpattu at 4:05 and the last train at 23.10. Peak hour headway is 15 minutes. Chennai Beach–Melmaruvathur. Two service from Chennai Beach to Melmaruvathur at 08:30 and 11:10
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 Bitragun
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.
Service; Type: Suburban railway: System: Chennai Suburban Railway: Operator(s) Southern Railway (India) Depot(s) Avadi: Technical; Line length: 289.5 kilometres (179.9 mi) (69 km Suburban, 140 km MEMU and 81 km u/c) Number of tracks: 4 till Arakkonam, 2 till Katpadi,1 till Villupuram: Track gauge: Broad gauge: Electrification: 25: Operating ...
Map of Chennai Suburban Rail Network: Date: 20 August 2006 (original upload date) Source: No machine-readable source provided. Own work assumed (based on copyright claims). Author: No machine-readable author provided. Planemad assumed (based on copyright claims).
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 suburban services operated in ...