* IR is able to give ultimate luxurious train services to its passengers with Maharaja, Palace-on-Wheels, Royal-Rajasthan-on-rails, etc for tourists and is world leader in the matter of luxury trains.
* In the matter of business class trains, the Shatabdi trains were falling short of the world standards, which now has been taken care of by Tejas.
* However in the matter of speed, IR fare very badly with Shatabdi/Raj trains operating at just 130kmph against 300-330kmph in China, France, Germany, Japan, Italy etc.
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more... It is the poor tracks and not the trains which is letting IR down. IR have 200kmph and luxury train but the tracks in general permit 110/130kmph only.