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The Chennai-Arakkonam suburban bid conception volition soon have its archetypal air-conditioned manager services from this summer, arsenic the Southern Railway conducted a trial tally of an AC bid betwixt the railway shed successful Avadi and Arakkonam railway station.
It comes aft the palmy cognition of the archetypal air-conditioned suburban bid services betwixt Chennai Beach-Chengalpattu railway stations, which began its tally successful April 2025. “Originally, the air-conditioned bid services connected the conception (Chennai-Arakkonam) were planned for January 2026, up of summer. Due to immoderate delays, the services volition commence soon,” a elder railway authoritative told The Hindu.
Railway officials said that this was the archetypal clip specified a trial to tally air-conditioned EMU services connected the conception had been conducted. The thought to commencement specified a work connected the way was based connected respective recommendations made by section commuters, including traders, bureau goers and elder citizens, particularly aft the commencement of akin bid services connected the Chennai Beach-Chengalpattu section. “The caller air-conditioned suburban bid services volition person bully patronage arsenic a ample fig of commuters beryllium connected obstruction connectivity to scope Chennai successful a abbreviated time,” said S. Ethiraj, president, Arakkonam All Traders Association.
Railway officials said that an air-conditioned suburban bid with 12 coaches volition beryllium operated, particularly during unreserved hour. It volition run connected the lines of the existing Chennai Central-Arakkonam accelerated that has constricted stops astatine cardinal railway stations specified arsenic Basin Bridge, Perambur, Ambattur, Avadi, Tiruvallur and Arakkonam.
More importantly, dissimilar regular suburban bid services connected the section, which instrumentality astatine slightest 3 hours to screen the distance, Arakkonam accelerated section bid is overmuch quicker arsenic it takes lone 2 hours to scope Arakkonam, astir 80 kms from Chennai.
The minimum velocity bounds of the air-conditioned bid services volition beryllium 90 km/h. It volition beryllium accrued to a maximum velocity bounds of 110 km/h connected the route. The trial tally besides included checking way question successful presumption of stability, awesome coordination and velocity limits connected the route.
At present, the railway presumption has lone 2 tracks wherever each explicit and suburban trains are operated. Apart from section trains, much than 120 explicit trains walk done the railway presumption each day. Recently, the Southern Railway has created an further abstraction of 9 metres adjacent the existing tracks to laic astatine slightest 2 caller tracks to run much explicit trains successful future.
