The trains Gujarat needs desperately:-

What are your thoughts? Would you add or remove any trains to/from this list? Appreciate your inputs.

1) Surat Sealdah Daily SFE via Prayagraj Chheoki
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Veraval Yog Nagri Rishikesh Shiv Shakti Superfast Daily Express via Ratlam, Mathura, Hazrat Nizamuddin, Meerut City
3) Hapa Ranchi Tri-weekly Superfast Express via ANND, GDA, SHRN, NKJ, BSP, JSG
4) Porbandar Bandra Terminus Tri-weekly Superfast Express
5) Bhuj Chandigarh Daily Express via FL, RE, UMB
6) Ahmedabad Tiruchirappalli Daily Express via PA, GTL, RU, MS, CGL, VM
7) Valsad Okha Daily O/N Superfast Express
8) Sabarmati Katra Daily Express via ABR, JP, RE, UMB
9) Rajkot SMVT Bengaluru Daily Express via PA, UBL
10) Gandhidham Madurai Weekly Express via PA, GTL, RU, MS, VM
11) Okha Pondicherry Weekly Superfast Express via JL, BPQ, BZA, MS, VM
12) Ahmedabad Visakhapatnam Daily Superfast Express via PA, SC, Guntur
13) Mathura Okha Brij Bhumi Superfast Daily Express via Govardhan, Alwar, Jaipur, Mahesana, Viramgam
14) Surat Rajkot Daily Superfast Intercity Express
15) Bhopal Okha Weekly Express via UJN, GDA, ANND
16) Udhna Rajendra Nagar Patna Daily Express via BSL, ET, DDU
17) Agartala Rajkot Weekly Superfast Express via GHY, NJP, PNBE, DDU, JBP, ET, BSL, ADI
18) Junagadh Dadar Girnar Daily Superfast Express
19) Veraval Rameswaram Weekly Superfast Express via PA, GTL, RU, MS, VM, MDU
20) Palanpur Bandra Daily Express

FASTEST TRAINS : INDIA VS USA

I and Railfan SSK were on an RF trip this month, part of which included a ride on Acela, the fastest train of the US

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train had the following schedule for the 735km run with a top speed of 240kmph:

Boston 6:05
New York City 10:03
Washington DC 13:03

Given the similarity in timings (6AM to 1PM vs 6AM to 2PM) and distance (735kms vs 759 kms) for a fun comparative analysis, we recorded data for 22436 NDLS BSB Vande Bharat on a few of its runs and tried to see in real time on the day of our trip how does the fastest train of India "race" against the fastest train of the US

The most notable observation was :
Vande Bharat with an MPS of 130kmph covers the distance of 427 kms from NDLS to outer Kanpur (Panki Dham) on the 6 to 10 slot.
On nearly the exact same slot, Acela is able to reach from Boston to outer New York City (Harlem) while the distance here is 372 kms and the train touches 240 kmph on parts of this route

Now again, US isn't all that great when it comes to railways anyway, but I guess what this serves to prove is that just the "top speed" of trains don't play as much of a role in faster connectivity. Semi-high speed trains that are capable of hitting MPS for the majority of their routes can do just the same. Or maybe better.