MGR Chennai Central–Coimbatore Vande Bharat Express

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20643 ↓ MGR Chennai Central Salem Junction Erode Junction Tiruppur 20644 ↑ Coimbatore Junction

The 20643/20644 MGR Chennai Central - Coimbatore Vande Bharat Express is India's 13th Vande Bharat Express train, connecting the city of Chennai with Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu.^[1][2][3]

This train is operated by Indian Railways, connecting MGR Chennai Central, Salem Jn, Erode Jn, Tiruppur and Coimbatore Jn. It is currently operated with train numbers 20643/20644 on 6 days a week basis.^[4] This train was flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 8 April 2023.^[5]

It is the eleventh 2nd Generation and the second Mini Vande Bharat 2.0 Express train^{[broken anchor]} manufactured by the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) at Perambur, Chennai under the Make in India initiative.^[6]

The 20643/20644 M.G.R. Chennai Central - Coimbatore Vande Bharat Express operates 6 days a week, covering a distance of 495 km (308 mi) in a travel time of 5 hrs 50 mins with an average speed of 80 km/h (50 mph). The Maximum Permissible Speed is 130 km/h (81 mph).

• Vande Bharat Express
• Tejas Express
• Gatimaan Express
• Chennai Central railway station
• Coimbatore Junction railway station

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Vande Bharat Express

Central Railway

• Mumbai CSMT ⇔ Madgaon^
• Mumbai CSMT ⇔ Sainagar Shirdi
• Mumbai CSMT ⇔ Solapur
• Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) ⇔ SMVT Bengaluru^

East Central Railway

• Patna Jn. ⇔ Howrah Jn.^
• Patna Jn. ⇔ Ranchi Jn.^
• Patna Jn. ⇔ Gomti Nagar (Lucknow)^

East Coast Railway

• Visakhapatnam Jn. ⇔ Secunderabad Jn.
• Puri ⇔ Rourkela Jn.^
• Bhubaneswar ⇔ Visakhapatnam Jn.^

Eastern Railway

• Howrah Jn. ⇔ New Jalpaiguri Jn.

North Eastern Railway

• Gorakhpur Jn ⇔ Prayagraj (Allahabad) Jn^
• Lucknow Jn ⇔ Dehradun Terminal^

Northeast Frontier Railway

• New Jalpaiguri Jn. ⇔ Guwahati^
• New Jalpaiguri Jn. ⇔ Patna Jn.^

Northern Railway

• Amritsar Jn. ⇔ Delhi Jn.^
• Anand Vihar Terminal ⇔ Ayodhya Cantonment Jn.^
• New Delhi ⇔ Amb Andaura
• Dehradun ⇔ Anand Vihar Terminal^
• New Delhi ⇔ Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra
• New Delhi ⇔ Varanasi Jn.
• Varanasi Jn. ⇔ New Delhi
• SMVD Katra ⇔ New Delhi
• Hazrat Nizamuddin ⇔ Khajuraho Jn.^
• Meerut City Jn. ⇔ Lucknow Charbagh^

North Western Railway

• Ajmer Jn. ⇔ Chandigarh Jn.^
• Jodhpur ⇔ Sabarmati (Ahmedabad)^
• Udaipur City ⇔ Jaipur Jn.^

South Central Railway

• Jalna ⇔ Mumbai CSMT^
• Secunderabad Jn. ⇔ Tirupati
• Kacheguda ⇔ Yesvantpur Jn.^
• Secunderabad Jn. ⇔ Visakhapatnam Jn.^

South East Central Railway

• Bilaspur Jn. ⇔ Nagpur Jn.^

South Eastern Railway

• Howrah Jn. ⇔ Puri
• Ranchi Jn. ⇔ Howrah Jn.^
• Ranchi Jn. ⇔ Varanasi Jn.^

South Western Railway

• KSR Bengaluru ⇔ Dharwad^
• Mysuru Jn. ⇔ MGR Chennai Central^

Southern Railway

• Chennai Egmore ⇔ Tirunelveli Jn.^
• Coimbatore Jn. ⇔ Bengaluru Cantonment^
• Mangaluru Central ⇔ Thiruvananthapuram Central (via Alappuzha)^
• Kasaragod ⇔ Thiruvananthapuram Central (via Kottayam)
• Mangaluru Central ⇔ Madgaon Jn.^
• MGR Chennai Central ⇔ Coimbatore Jn.^
• MGR Chennai Central ⇔ Mysuru Jn.
• MGR Chennai Central ⇔ Vijayawada Jn.^
• Chennai Egmore ⇔ Nagercoil Jn.
• Madurai Jn. ⇔ Bengaluru Cantonment^

West Central Railway

• Rani Kamalapati (Habibganj) ⇔ Hazrat Nizamuddin
• Rani Kamalapati (Habibganj) ⇔ Rewa^

Western Railway

• Mumbai Central ⇔ Gandhinagar Capital
• Indore Jn. ⇔ Nagpur Jn.^
• Ahmedabad ⇔ Okha^
• Ahmedabad Jn. ⇔ Mumbai Central

^ indicates 8 coach trainset (standard: 16 coach trainset)