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Commuters arriving successful the metropolis from arsenic acold distant arsenic Tiruttani connected the westbound and Villupuram connected the southbound privation the Southern Railway to regenerate eight-car and 10-car mainline electrical aggregate portion (MEMU) trains with astatine slightest 12-car MEMUs.
At a clip erstwhile the Indian Railways has sleek and blase Vande Bharat trains, thousands of commuters, including traders, visiting the metropolis from acold disconnected places are forced to question successful the cramped and congested MEMU trains. The MEMUs are operated connected the accelerated enactment connected which message and explicit trains are usually operated.
The MEMU services are intercity trains provided with toilets for longer journeys and are operated till Villupuram connected the southbound side, Tiruttani and besides Tirupati connected the westbound side, and Sullurpetta successful the North.
While the suburban bid services person been converted to 12-car rakes connected each the 3 sections successful the city, the cognition of eight-car rakes is causing terrible inconvenience to nationalist owed to over-crowding successful these trains.
The MEMU bid is smaller than the broad-gauge suburban trains with mediocre ventilation and constrictive entree for the commuters.
J. Ranganathan, caput of Kanchipuram-Chennai Rail Commuters Association, said that the bid web is the economical transport enactment for thousands of commuters residing beyond metropolis limits and these commuters merit a amended service. He said the eight-car MEMU could beryllium shifted for operating shuttle services from Arakkonam to Chengalpattu via Kancheepuram arsenic determination were constricted services connected this agelong and the stations could besides accommodate the MEMU.
A loco aviator explained that the cognition of EMUs was not feasible beyond the suburban railway line, arsenic the level infrastructure cannot accommodate EMUs. However, the MEMU trains had been designed to beryllium suitable for the platforms of stations beyond the suburban line, and since they person steps, commuters tin get down to the level without overmuch hardship. While galore MEMU trains person been converted to 12-car rakes, eight-car rakes are inactive operated, helium said.
A elder authoritative of Southern Railway said a full of 60 MEMU bid services were being operated successful each sections of Chennai Division. On replacing the eight-car MEMU, the authoritative said the determination would beryllium taken based connected the beingness rhythm of MEMU.
