Thousands of commuters suffer as Southern Railway further reduces suburban train services in Chennai

Chaotic scenes of dense crowds astatine large railway stations person go communal connected the Beach-Tambaram and Chengalpattu conception arsenic Southern Railway further reduced bid services from Tuesday (February 24, 2026) amid ongoing redevelopment astatine Egmore railway station.

Earlier, it had announced a simplification of bid services from February 20 to April 5 for 45 days. Thousands of office-goers from the confederate suburbs of the city, including Chengalpattu, Perungalathur, Guduvanchery, Tambaram, and Pallavaram, person been facing terrible hardships owing to the reduced services.