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The Southern Railway has announced augmentation of the Coimbatore-Mettupalayam-Coimbatore MEMU rider trains with 12 cars from the existing eight, overmuch to the alleviation of the travelling public, with effect from February 23.
An bid issued connected February 12, 2026 (Thursday) by the Southern Railway said Coimbatore-Mettupalayam-Coimbatore MEMU bid services (66613/14 and 66617/18) and Mettupalayam-Podanur Junction-Mettupalayam MEMU Train services (66611/12, 66615/16, and 66619/20) volition beryllium operated with 12 cars.
The Southern Railway has, by augmenting the coaches, fulfilled the long-time request of the travelling nationalist successful Mettupalayam, Karamadai, Periyanaickenpalayam and Thudiyalur.
The passengers had been highlighting their plight by depicting the compulsion of travelling dangerously connected footboard owed to excessive crowding astatine each station.
On Friday, the General Manager of Southern Railway R.N. Singh visited the Coimbatore North and Mettupalayam Railway Stations for regular inspection. He was apprised of the predicament of the travelling nationalist by S. Basha, coordinator, Namma Mettupalayam Social Welfare Committee.
Calling connected Mr. Singh astatine Mettupalayam, Mr. Basha submitted a petition urging the Southern Railway to summation the MEMU services operated from Mettupalayam Station from 5 to seven, factoring successful the penchant of the travelling nationalist for trains owing to affordability and reliability, against the backdrop of dense roadworthy congestion.
The different demands articulated done the petition included conversion of the Mettupalayam-Tirunelveli play and Mettupalayam-Tuticorin bi-weekly Express trains into regular services; hold of Pollachi-Coimbatore Passenger Train successful the greeting hours to Mettupalayam; restoration of Mettupalayam–Shoranur bid work to bring astir inter-state connectivity for passengers travelling to Kerala for employment and commercialized purposes; doubling of Mettupalayam–Coimbatore North Railway Line for strengthening operational ratio and instauration of caller services; and instauration of night-time bid services to Bengaluru and destinations successful Kerala aft the departure of the Chennai-bound Nilgiri Express.
The petition besides highlighted demands for a railway overbridge astatine Shanthi Nagar successful Mettupalayam town; optimised absorption astatine the Kattoor railway gross to code the contented of prolonged closures for transition of NMR train; and betterment of rider amenities, including proviso of ATM, and a due signage astatine Mettupalayam Railway Station
