Trains with 12 cars to be introduced soon by the southern railways
Posted on: 08/Feb/2018 9:37:02 AM
Good news for the passengers travelling by suburban trains now. Beginning this month of February Southern railways is planning to introduce suburban trains with 12 car rakes and this would be between Moore Market Complex or MMC and Avadi. It is now confirmed that this plan by the southern railways would help as many as 3400 more people daily as they would be able to travel easily.
This MMC/Beach to Thiruvallur section daily sees close to 4 lakh commuters and these people would be hugely benefitted by this. It is now clear that 11 daily train services would be run between the two stations mentioned above and this is one of the busiest lines in Chennai city.
It is worthy to note that railways would run train services from Avadi or Thiruvallur to Tambaram through Beach and this would be possible once 12 car rakes are introduced.
According to Mr. Kulshreshtra General Manager of Southern Railways, there are many passenger-friendly initiatives that zone would be carrying out and this new train service would be one such. He later spoke about how this 12 car trains would be run like a shuttle between the stations MMC and Avadi. Currently 9 car rakes are being used in this section and this new 12 car rakes would ease the overcrowding that is present in the peak hours.
It is now said that this move comes at a time when trains are in huge demand as the passengers have started using trains more for their transportation due to increase in bus fares. Mr Kulshreshtra further added that presently there are as many as 23 suburban trains now.
He hinted that next week three phase 12 car EMU on the popular Beach-Tambaram route would be launched and these trains would have superb LED lightings plus passenger information system. The three phase trains would be manufactured at ICF.
