The 12007/08 Chennai Central–Mysuru Junction Shatabdi Express is a Superfast Express train of the Shatabdi Express category belonging to Indian Railways, Southern Railway zone, that runs between Chennai Central and Mysuru Junction in India. It is the first Shatabdi Express in South India.
It operates as train number 12007 from Chennai Central to Mysuru Junction, and as train number 12008 in the reverse direction while also connecting the capital cities of the states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
Service The 12007 Chennai Central–Mysuru Junction Shatabdi Express covers the distance of in 7 hours 00 mins averaging and in 7 hours 25 minutes as 12008 Mysuru Junction–Chennai Central Shatabdi Express averaging including halts.
Coaches earlier on first run was ICF Shatabdi liveried coaches (from 2003 to 2012), now in 2013 gets an LHB coaches upgrade equipped with one LHB Anubhuti coach in the middle or at the back of the train
Loco link earlier was WAM-4 and WAP-1. Prior end 2017 due to partial electrification of the route, an Arakkonam or Royapuram-based WAP-4 or WAP-7 would haul the train between Chennai Central & KSR Bengaluru Station handing over to a Hubli-based WDP-4 or WDG-4 and Tondiarpet-based WDM-3D or WDM-3A which would then power the train up to Mysuru Junction.
Since the entire route is now completely electrified, the train is now hauled end to end by a Royapuram or Erode based WAP-7 or WAP-5 locomotive which are equipped with head-on generation(HOG) technology.
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