CHENNAI: EMU trains in Chennai Beach to Tambaram section on 22 September (Sunday) between 07:00 am to 8:00 pm would be fully cancelled owing to engineering work. In lieu of cancelled EMU trains, 24 passenger specials each will be operated between Chennai Beach - Pallavaram – Chennai Beach section on both sides. EMU trains bound for Chengalpattu/Kanchipuram/Tirumalpur/Arakkonam and back will run as per schedule timings on Sunday.
Passenger specials would be operated from Chennai Beach at 06:15 am, 06:55 am, 07:20 am, 07:45 am, 08:00 am, 08:35 am, 09:38 am, 10:10 am, 10:40 am, 11:20 am, 12:00 pm, 1:05 pm, 1:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:10 pm, 3:45 pm, 4:10 pm, 4:30 pm, 4:50 pm, 5:10 pm, 5:50 pm, 6:20 pm, 6:50 pm, 7:00 pm till Pallavaram.
From Pallavaram passenger specials would be operated at 7.10 am, 07:45 am, 08:10 am, 08:35 am, 08:55 am, 09:35 am, 10:35 am, 11:05 am, 11:35 am, 12:10 pm, 12:55 pm, 1:55 pm, 2:25 pm, 3:20 pm, 4:00 pm, 4:40 pm, 5:05 pm, 5:20 pm, 5:40 pm, 6:05 pm, 6:40 pm, 7:15 pm, 7:40 pm, 7:50 pm till Chennai Beach.
When contacted a senior official attached to the Chennai division of Southern Railway said that the works would be carried on Sundays for another four weeks.
MTC will be operating 50 special buses in the view of the cancellation of the EMU train services. It would operate 10 special buses from Tambaram to Pallavaram, 20 buses to each to T Nagar and Broadway from Tambaram.