KSR Bengaluru–Coimbatore Uday Express

The 22665 / 22666 KSR Bengaluru City – Coimbatore Uday Express is the 1st Uday Express series double-decker AC chair train of the Indian Railways connecting Bangalore City in Karnataka and Coimbatore Junction in Tamil Nadu. It is currently being operated with 22665/22666 train numbers on all days in a week basis.[1][2][3][4][5] It operates at an average speed of 65 km/h.

KSR Bengaluru - Coimbatore Jn
UDAY Express
Overview
Service typeUday Express
LocaleTamil Nadu, Karnataka
First service8 June 2018; 6 years ago (2018-06-08)
Current operator(s)Southern Railways
Route
TerminiKSR Bengaluru City (SBC)
Coimbatore Junction (CBE)
Stops6
Distance travelled419 km (260 mi)
Average journey time6h 45m
Service frequencyDaily
Train number(s)22665 / 22666
On-board services
Class(es)AC Chair Car, Reserved Seating (D#)
Seating arrangementsYes
Sleeping arrangementsNo
Auto-rack arrangementsYes
Catering facilitiesOn-board catering,
E-catering
Observation facilitiesLarge windows
Entertainment facilitiesNo
Baggage facilitiesYes
Other facilitiesCafeteria
Technical
Rolling stockLHB-Uday
Track gauge1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in)
Operating speed64 km/h (40 mph) average including halts

Coach composition

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Utkrisht Double Decker Air Conditioned Yatri Express will be double-decker train trains with 40% additional passenger capacity. They will run overnight on busy route by Indian Railways with features of LED screen display to show information about stations, train speed etc. and will have announcement system as well, Vending machines for tea, coffee and milk, Bio toilets in compartments as well as CCTV cameras.

This UDAY Express when introduced had a total of 10 AC coaches; 3 coaches with dining facility with seating capacity of 104 seats each and 5 coaches without dining with seating capacity of 120 seats. The remaining two will be power cars. However, because of low occupancy by passengers, 3 coaches of Double Decker AC Chair Car were replaced with 5 non-AC Chair Car making it a 12 coaches train.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
22666   EOG C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 DL1
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
22665   DL1 D5 D4 D3 D2 D1 C7 C6 C5 C4 C3 C2 C1 EOG

The train shares rake with Chennai-KSR Bengaluru AC Double Decker Express

Service

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It averages 62 km/h as 22665 Uday Express starts from Bengaluru City Junction covering 419 km in 8 hrs 45 mins and 61 km/h as 22666 Uday Express starts from Coimbatore Junction covering 419 km in 8 hrs 55 min.

Schedule

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The schedule of this 22666/22665 KSR Bengaluru - Coimbatore Jn UDAY Express is given below:-

SBC - CBE - SBC UDAY Express
22666 Stations 22665
Arrival Departure Arrival Departure
---- 05:40 Coimbatore Junction 21:00 ----
06:18 06:20 Tiruppur 19:38 19:40
07:05 07:10 Erode Junction 18:50 18:55
08:02 08:05 Salem Junction 17:52 17:55
10:36 10:37 Kuppam 15:42 15:43
12:02 12:03 Krishnarajapuram 14:34 14:35
12:40 ---- KSR Bengaluru City Junction ---- 14:15

Traction

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Both trains are hauled by a WAP-7 of Royapuram / Erode Locomotive Shed on its entire journey.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ IRCTC Installs First Ever Automatic Food Vending Machine In Uday Express Get F&B News delivered to your inbox View this in app
  2. ^ Nag, Devanjana (8 June 2018). "UDAY Express double-decker Coimbatore–Bengaluru train starts today! Check schedule, fare, other details here". Financial Express. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  3. ^ New double-decker train between Bengaluru and Coimbatore
  4. ^ INTRODUCTION OF UDAY EXPRESS TRAINS BETWEEN COIMBATORE – KSR BENGALURU – COIMBATORE
  5. ^ UDAY Express: Indian Railways new double-decker Coimbatore-Bengaluru train ready for flag off this week
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