A large number of office-goers were stranded during peak office hours after an empty rake of an electrical multiple unit (EMU) train derailed at the Avadi railway station, early on on Tuesday, October 24, 2023. The derailment resulted in the three bogies going off the tracks disrupting both suburban train services and long-distance trains.
According to Southern Railway, five EMU trains towards Chennai Central were delayed and four Express trains Vande Bharat (Chennai - Mysore), Shatabdhi (Chennai-Mysore), Double Decker (Chennai-Bengaluru), Brindavan (Chennai-Bengaluru) and Kovai Express (Chennai-Coimbatore) were rescheduled at the originating stations due to late running of pairing trains in the morning and evening schedules.
