Tejas Express offers Luxury Train Travel from Chennai And Madurai

The new Tejas Express is all set to get on track to serve the people with its luxury elements in the coming days. Fortunately, the train was reserved for Northern Railway, but finally, it was allotted to Southern Railway.

Chennai’s Integral Coach Factory (ICF) started work on the renovation of Tejas Express' new coaches with all modern and luxury elements. In the coming days, the train will be chugging on the Chennai to Madurai route. This train is going to be the first luxury train connecting Chennai Egmore with the Southern districts. Also, ICF stated that, fortunately, the train was first reserved for Northern Railways, but finally it was allotted to Southern Railway.

In 2017, the train rendered its services through Mumbai and Goa. Now, it is under renovation to start a new innings as the luxury train between Chennai and Madurai.

Here are the complete details about the new innings of the Tejas Express:

Features

Features are the first things everyone wonders about the new luxury trains. Now the coaches of the Tejas Express will be equipped with all luxury amenities and facilities like fully air-conditioned interiors, sliding coach doors, FRP interior panels, a GPS information system, modern toilets, CCTV cameras, and an easily accessible way for a coach-to-coach transit.

Coaches

23 coaches are equipped for the new Tejas Express with all modern and classy amenities. Overall, 18 air-conditioned chair cars, 2 executive air-conditioned chair cars, and 2 cars are meant for power supply.

Amenities

The amenities of the upcoming Tejas train are nearly world-class quality, with classy and luxurious seats, WiFi facility, personalized lights and a display system behind every seat; audio equipment, and USB charging ports are the best-class amenities of the Tejas Express.

Seating capacity

The new Tejas Express is coming with a capacity of 56 passengers in the executive class chair cars and a capacity of 78 passengers in regular air-conditioned chair cars. Totally, 134 passengers can travel through the train at a time.

Ticket Fares

There is no clarity about the ticket fare of Tejas Express because its services have not started. But according to some sources, the ticket fare will be 20% higher than the fare of Shatabdi Express. Based on this, one chair car seat may cost 1,000, and an executive class seat may cost 2,000. But the exact ticket fare of the train was not finalized.

Speed

The speed of this train will reduce the journey time between Chennai and Madurai. According to the senior official of Southern Railways, the average train speed will be 70 km ph. It will circulate through Chennai and Madurai for 5 days a week.

Upcoming Schedule

As per the sources, the train will start from Chennai at 6 AM, and it will reach Madurai by 1 PM and come back to Chennai again by 9 PM. During the journey, a halt at Kodai Road will lead to the best tourist attraction. By noon, the train will reach Kodaikanal, and tourists can visit the hill station, and by 3 PM the train will return.

But the complete details and ticket fares of the new Tejas Express are not yet out. 

The other most popular luxury trains in India are:

Palace on Wheels
Maharajas' Express
Deccan Odyssey

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