Chennai to Payyanur train

Trains from Chennai to Payyanur start at €66.89 and take 5h 57m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Chennai to Payyanur starts at €66.89 and takes 5h 57m door to door, run by 2 operators over 610 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 23 September 2026Priced for 12 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 5h 57mDoor to door
  • 4h 19mMoving
  • €77.34 to €172.49From
  • 07:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 3Per day
  • 20.3 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 12 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€77.34 to €172.49 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 €164.79Thu24
  2. about €172.49Fri25
  3. about €120.79Sat26
  4. about €151.59Sun27
  5. about €125.19Mon28
  6. about €100.44Tue29
  7. about €96.59Wed30
  8. about €103.19Thu1
  9. about €99.89Fri2
  10. about €115.84Sat3
  11. about €107.04Sun4
  12. about €82.29Mon5
  13. about €81.19Tue6
  14. about €77.34Wed7

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

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 12 October 2026

Cheapest€66.89
  1. Indian Railway IR884807:302h 46m10:16Chennai Fort railway stationBelagula railway station
  2. South Western Railway SW380211:401h 23m13:03Belagula railway stationPayyanur railway station

Changes at Mysuru, with 84 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 6h 17mCO2 19.3 kgChanges 1Refundable

Carriers

Train operators

  • Indian Railway
  • South Western Railway

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

A hotel room

A room in Payyanur for the night the train gets in

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Booking window

When to book Chennai to Payyanur

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

  1. €74.0490 days
  2. €66.3460 days
  3. €71.8445 days
  4. €70.7430 days
  5. €71.2921 days
  6. €77.3414 days
  7. €96.597 days
  8. €120.793 days
  9. €164.791 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €66.34.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 148 percent. The dearest point is €164.79, 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. €107.04Sun
  2. €82.29Mon
  3. €81.19Tue
  4. €77.34Wed
  5. €103.19Thu
  6. €99.89Fri
  7. €115.84Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Chennai

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

Payyanur

Rail
  • Payyanur railway station
  • Chandera railway station
  • Ezhimala 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 610 km against 562 km in a straight line, a detour of 9 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Bengaluru, Mysuru, Mandya. The gap between arriving and leaving is 54 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 17 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 3 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Chennai to Payyanur

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 Payyanur take?

The Train from Chennai to Payyanur takes 5h 57m door to door, of which 4h 19m is spent moving. The route runs 610 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 Payyanur cost?

The Train from Chennai to Payyanur starts at €66.89 for one passenger, as of 23 September 2026. A typical fare is €72.94. 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 Payyanur?

2 operators run the Train from Chennai to Payyanur: Indian Railway, South Western Railway. Between them they file around 3 departures 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 Payyanur use?

The Train from Chennai to Payyanur leaves from CHENNAI FORT and arrives at Payyanur 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.

When should I book the Train from Chennai to Payyanur?

Fares for the Train from Chennai to Payyanur bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €66.34. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 148 percent, measured on 23 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Train from Chennai to Payyanur produces about 20.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 610 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 Payyanur?

Operators on the Train from Chennai to Payyanur publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 5h 57m 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 Payyanur on 23 September 2026: 610 km of route against 562 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €66.89, and 5h 57m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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