Air
The nearest airport is the Coimbatore International Airport. It is about 45 km (28 mi) from Tirupur. Proposals are being made to expand the Coimbatore International Airport as a green fields airport, which would eventually shift the airport to the east of the present airport and would be more easy for Tirupur citizens to access the airport.
Bus
Tirupur is well connected by moffusil bus services to all major routes, towns and cities across Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra.The city has two major bus stands (Old bus stand and New Bus stand).
Rail
Tiruppur falls on the Chennai-Calicut Broad gauge main line (laid in 1893) which is fully electrified and double track. Tirupur has the following railway stations.
Tiruppur (TUP)
Vanjipalayam (VNJ)
Koolipalayam (KUY)
Uthukuli (UKL)
Somanur (SNO)
However all express trains stop only at Tirupur (Code:TUP). A few express trains stop at Uthukuli which is 10 mins drive from Tirupur station. Passenger shuttles stop at Vanjipalayam, Somanur and Koolipalayam which are also a 10 mins drive from Tirupur railway station. Also some of the superfast Kerala bound trains stop at Tirupur.
Despite Tirupur being one of the top revenue earners in Salem Division, the railway station has only 2 platforms and no starting trains from the city. About 30,000 passengers travels to Tirupur per day despite not being a Railway Junction. As a result Tirupur railway station is always crowded.
Tirupur is well connected by trains to Chennai, Coimbatore, Erode, Salem, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kanyakumari, Guwahati, Jaipur, New Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta, Kochi, Mangalore, Kumbakonam, Madurai, Vellore, Tirunelveli, Nagercoil and Trivandrum. There are demands to
