Chennai Suburban Railway
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Chennai Suburban Railway is a commuter rail system in the city of Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu, India operated by the Southern Railway, one of the operating railway zones of Indian Railways.
Chennai has a complex railway network. The system uses electrical multiple units (EMUs) operating on alternating current (AC) drawn from over-head cables through the catenary system. The total system spans around 900 km of which only 286 km have dedicated dual tracks for suburban EMUs, the rest share tracks with other trains and are called mainline EMUs (MEMUs). As of 2013, the suburban sector has 580 services, including 250 in the Beach--Tambaram section, 240 services in the Central--Tiruvallur section, and 90 in the Central--Gummidipoondi. As of 2011-2012, 1.46 million people use the suburban train services daily. This includes 500,000 in the Beach--Tambaram section, 350,000 in the Central--Tiruvallur section, and 100,000 in the Central--Gummidipoondi section. This is a 13.2 percent increase over the previous year. A total of 65 stations in the suburban section have cycle stands.
Fundamentally Chennai has 4 suburban railway lines, namely North line, West line, South line and MRTS line. The South West line, West North line and West South line are merely minor extensions or modifications of the aforementioned suburban lines. The MRTS is a suburban railway line that chiefly runs on a elevated track exclusively used for running local EMUs or suburban local trains. No express trains or passenger trains run on MRTS line.
Source: Wikipedia
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Chennai has a complex railway network. The system uses electrical multiple units (EMUs) operating on alternating current (AC) drawn from over-head cables through the catenary system. The total system spans around 900 km of which only 286 km have dedicated dual tracks for suburban EMUs, the rest share tracks with other trains and are called mainline EMUs (MEMUs). As of 2013, the suburban sector has 580 services, including 250 in the Beach--Tambaram section, 240 services in the Central--Tiruvallur section, and 90 in the Central--Gummidipoondi. As of 2011-2012, 1.46 million people use the suburban train services daily. This includes 500,000 in the Beach--Tambaram section, 350,000 in the Central--Tiruvallur section, and 100,000 in the Central--Gummidipoondi section. This is a 13.2 percent increase over the previous year. A total of 65 stations in the suburban section have cycle stands.
Fundamentally Chennai has 4 suburban railway lines, namely North line, West line, South line and MRTS line. The South West line, West North line and West South line are merely minor extensions or modifications of the aforementioned suburban lines. The MRTS is a suburban railway line that chiefly runs on a elevated track exclusively used for running local EMUs or suburban local trains. No express trains or passenger trains run on MRTS line.
Source: Wikipedia
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of tens of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at rupindang [at] gmail [dot] com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.