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The 22665 / 22666 Bangalore 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 Main in Tamil Nadu. It is currently being operated with 22665/22666 train numbers on Six Days a week basis.[1][2][3][4][5] It operates at an average speed of 65 km/h.

Bangalore City–Coimbatore Uday Express

Overview
Service type	Uday Express
First service	8 June 2018; 3 years ago (2018-06-08)
Current operator(s)	Southern Railways
Route
Termini	KSR Bengaluru City (SBC) Coimbatore Main (CBE)
Stops	6
Distance travelled	419 km (260 mi)
Average journey time	6h 45m
Service frequency	Six Days (except Monday)
Train number(s)	22665 / 22666
On-board services
Class(es)	AC 3 tier
Seating arrangements	Yes
Sleeping arrangements	No
Catering facilities	On-board catering, E-catering
Observation facilities	Large windows
Entertainment facilities	No
Baggage facilities	Yes
Technical
Rolling stock	LHB-Uday
Track gauge	1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in)
Operating speed	64 km/h (40 mph) average including halts

Coach composition

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.

Service

It averages 62 km/hr as 22665 Uday Express starts from Bengaluru City Junction covering 419 km in 6 hrs 45 mins & 61 km/hr as 22666 Uday Express starts from Coimbatore Main covering 419 km in 6 hrs 55 min.

Traction

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

Route & halts

• KSR Bengaluru City
• Krishnarajapuram
• Kuppam
• Salem Junction
• Erode Junction
• Tiruppur
• Coimbatore Main

See also

• Chennai–Bangalore Double Decker Express
• Visakhapatnam–Vijayawada Uday Express
• Uday Express

References

External links

• 22665/KSR Bengaluru - Coimbatore Uday Express
• 22666/Coimbatore - KSR Bengaluru Uday Express

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