Coimbatore - MGR Chennai Central Intercity Express is a train that runs between

Chennai Chennai, also known as Madras (List of renamed places in India#Tamil Nadu, its official name until 1996), is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Tamil Nadu by population, largest city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost states and ...

, the state capital of

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is the southernmost States and union territories of India, state of India. The List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of Indi ...

and

Coimbatore Coimbatore (Tamil: kōyamputtūr, ), also known as Kovai (), is one of the major Metropolitan cities of India, metropolitan cities in the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located on the banks of the Noyy ...

, the second largest city of the state. It replaced erstwhile Chennai Coimbatore

Shatabdi Express Shatabdi Express () are a series of fast passenger trains operated by Indian Railways. Shatabdi Express are day trains and mostly return to their origin station the same day. The trains run at a maximum permissible speed of depending on the ...

used to run from 199

to 2000 and present Chennai Central–Coimbatore Shatabdi Express was not existed then. It is operated by the

Southern Railway zone Southern Railway (SR) is one of the eighteen zones of Indian Railways. It is headquartered at Chennai and operates across the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and the union territory of Puducherry. The origin of the Southern Rai ...

of the

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. 12679 is departs at 14:30 from Chennai central and arrives at 22:15. in Coimbatore; 12680 departs at 6:15 from Coimbatore and arrives at 13:50 in Chennai Central. The Train was given an Upgrade to LHB Coaches from 23 December 2019.

Stops

Stops for 12680 Stops for 12679

References

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