Chennai–Tirupati MEMU

The Moore Market Complex–Tirupati MEMU is a MEMU passenger service belonging to Southern Railway zone that runs between Moore Market Complex and Tirupati in India. It was announced in 2013 rail budget.

Service

The 66015/Moore Market Complex–Tirupati MEMU has an average speed of 37 km/h and covers 147 km in 4h. The 66014/Tirupati–Moore Market Complex MEMU has an average speed of 34 km/h and covers 147 km in 4h 15m. However after the CoVid pandemic, the train was re-introduced as a MEMU express special with train no 06727/06728 departing from MASS/TPTY respectively

Route and halts

The important halts of the train are:

• Moore Market Complex
• Perambur
• Ambattur
• Avadi
• Arakkonam Junction
• Puttur
• Tiruchanur
• Tirupati

Coach composition

The train uses either old generational MEMU which has 8 coaches or new generation MEMU (introduced by ICF ) which has 9 coaches out of which .6 are general coaches .3 are general ladies and first class coaches (it is 2 in the case of old gen MEMU)

Direction reversal

The train reverses its direction 1 times:

• Renigunta Junction

See also

• Tirupati railway station
• Moore Market Complex railway station
• Chennai Central–Tirupati Express

Notes

References

External links

• 66015/Moore Market Complex - Tirupati MEMU
• 66014/Tirupati - Moore Market Complex MEMU

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