Trains from Thrissur to Madurai start at €36.08 and take 3h 50m at their fastest.
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The Trains from Thrissur to Madurai starts at €36.08 and takes 3h 50m door to door, run by 2 operators over 283 km, with around 1 departure a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.
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.
€47.08 to €113.09 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.
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What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
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South Western Railway SW833707:301h 49m09:19Thrissur railway stationDindigul Junction railway station
Southern Railway SR716710:0432m10:36Dindigul Junction railway stationMadurai East railway stationChanges at Dindigul, with 45 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 3h 50mCO2 9.3 kgChanges 1Refundable
The train gets you into Madurai. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.
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Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
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.
The Train from Thrissur to Madurai takes 3h 50m door to door, of which 2h 21m is spent moving. The route runs 283 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.
The Train from Thrissur to Madurai starts at €36.08 for one passenger, as of 23 September 2026. A typical fare is €36.08. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
2 operators run the Train from Thrissur to Madurai: South Western Railway, Southern 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.
The Train from Thrissur to Madurai leaves from Thrissur railway station and arrives at Madurai East 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.
Fares for the Train from Thrissur to Madurai bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €37.18. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 204 percent, measured on 23 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Train from Thrissur to Madurai produces about 9.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 283 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.
Operators on the Train from Thrissur to Madurai publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 3h 50m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
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.
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The train is the simple part. What you do once you are in Madurai is somebody else's catalogue.
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3h 50m
2h 21m
€47.08 to €113.09
07:30 to 07:30
1
9.3 kg
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