Rail Bhawan officials said these trains run at an average speed of 55 km per hour and, after the conversion, their journey time has been cut by three to six hours.
However, this reclassification has also resulted in more money (over Rs 114 crore or Rs 1.14 billion in 2007-08) for the Railways as each passenger needs to fork out Rs 15 for super-fast charges.
Today, over a fifth of all passenger trains operated by the Railways are super-fast trains.
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