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). Since March 2012, the suburban sector has 450 services. As of 2011-2012, 1.46 million people use the suburban train services daily. This is a 13.2 percent increase over the previous year. A total of 65 stations in the suburban section have cycle stands.
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