KSR Bengaluru–Coimbatore Uday Express

The 22665 / 22666 KSR Bengaluru City – Palakkad Uday Express is the 1st Uday Express series double-decker AC chair train of the Indian Railways connecting Bangalore City in Karnataka and Palakkad Junction in Kerala. It is currently being operated with 22665/22666 train numbers on all days in a week basis. It operates at an average speed of 65 km/h.

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/h as 22665 Uday Express starts from Bengaluru City Junction covering 419 km in 8 hrs 45 mins and 61 km/h as 22666 Uday Express starts from Palakkad Junction covering 419 km in 8 hrs 55 min.

Schedule
The schedule of this 22666/22665 KSR Bengaluru - Coimbatore Jn UDAY Express is given below:-

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