Chennai to Nagpur train

Trains from Chennai to Nagpur start at €126.29 and take 9h 46m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Chennai to Nagpur starts at €126.29 and takes 9h 46m door to door, run by 1 operator over 1,041 km, with around 1 departure a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 23 September 2026Priced for 13 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 9h 46mDoor to door
  • 7h 46mMoving
  • €144.44 to €370.49From
  • 07:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 1Per day
  • 34.4 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 13 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€144.44 to €370.49 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.

Departure times on this route

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Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €370.49Thu24
  2. about €331.44Fri25
  3. about €281.94Sat26
  4. about €229.69Sun27
  5. about €198.34Mon28
  6. about €217.59Tue29
  7. about €223.09Wed30
  8. about €211.54Thu1
  9. about €182.94Fri2
  10. about €182.94Sat3
  11. about €180.19Sun4
  12. about €155.44Mon5
  13. about €144.44Tue6
  14. about €179.09Wed7

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 13 October 2026

Fastest€126.29
  1. South Central Railway SC157807:304h 46m12:16Chennai Fort railway stationWarangal railway station
  2. South Central Railway SC314913:323h16:32Warangal railway stationNagpur (se) railway station

Changes at Warangal, with 76 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 9h 46mCO2 34.4 kgChanges 1Refundable

Carriers

Train operators

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
South Central RailwayNoneNone140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi
  • South Central Railway

The train gets you into Nagpur. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Nagpur for the night the train gets in

Sort by distance from Nagpur (se) railway station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Chennai to Nagpur

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €77.7390 days
  2. €75.5360 days
  3. €77.1845 days
  4. €75.5330 days
  5. €85.9821 days
  6. €96.4314 days
  7. €125.587 days
  8. €182.783 days
  9. €241.631 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €75.53.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 220 percent. The dearest point is €241.63, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €95.88Sun
  2. €98.08Mon
  3. €84.33Tue
  4. €96.43Wed
  5. €100.83Thu
  6. €109.63Fri
  7. €108.53Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Chennai

Rail
  • Chennai Fort railway station
  • Chennai Park railway station
  • Chennai Beach railway station

Nagpur

Rail
  • Nagpur (se) railway station
  • Nagpur Junction railway station
  • Nagpur Moti Bagh railway station
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 1,041 km against 905 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Rāmgundam, Warangal. The gap between arriving and leaving is 69 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 14 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Chennai at 07:30 and the last at 07:30, across 1 departure The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
The alternatives

Trains against the other ways to make this journey

Door to door means the whole journey, including reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end. Fares are the cheapest sold on each mode.
ModeDoor to doorMovingAt the endsFromCO2Per day
Train9h 46m7h 46m2h€126.2934.4 kg1
Coach13h 54m12h 1m1h 53m€73.3335.1 kg1

Questions about Chennai to Nagpur

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Train from Chennai to Nagpur take?

The Train from Chennai to Nagpur takes 9h 46m door to door, of which 7h 46m is spent moving. The route runs 1,041 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Train from Chennai to Nagpur cost?

The Train from Chennai to Nagpur starts at €126.29 for one passenger, as of 23 September 2026. A typical fare is €126.29. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Train from Chennai to Nagpur?

1 operators run the Train from Chennai to Nagpur: South Central Railway. Between them they file around 1 departure a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Train from Chennai to Nagpur use?

The Train from Chennai to Nagpur leaves from Chennai Fort railway station and arrives at Nagpur (se) railway station. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

Is the Train the best way from Chennai to Nagpur?

Travelling from Chennai to Nagpur by Coach costs €73.33 and takes 13h 54m door to door, against 9h 46m by Train. Which is better depends on whether the money or the hours matter more on this trip. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.

When should I book the Train from Chennai to Nagpur?

Fares for the Train from Chennai to Nagpur bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €75.53. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 220 percent, measured on 23 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Chennai to Nagpur produce?

The Train from Chennai to Nagpur produces about 34.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1041 km, which works out at roughly 33 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Train from Chennai to Nagpur?

Operators on the Train from Chennai to Nagpur publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 9h 46m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Chennai to Nagpur on 23 September 2026: 1041 km of route against 905 km in a straight line, 1 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €126.29, and 9h 46m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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