{"id":594836,"date":"2023-08-01T10:57:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T05:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=594836"},"modified":"2023-08-01T10:57:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T05:27:55","slug":"how-once-speedy-premium-trains-lost-their-speed-due-to-political-stops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/how-once-speedy-premium-trains-lost-their-speed-due-to-political-stops\/","title":{"rendered":"How once-speedy premium trains lost their speed due to political stops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not trains in 1960s and 70s used to take less time to travel between Bengaluru and Chennai or Bengaluru and Coimbatore. During that period, travelling between Bengaluru and Chennai on the Brindavan Express took a mere five hours, while the Kovai Express covered the distance to Coimbatore in seven hours.<\/p>\n<p>However, these once-speedy premium trains have now lost their pace due to increasing stops along their routes. From being the epitome of convenience and luxury, they have succumbed to slower travel times, much to the dismay of passengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not trains in 1960s and 70s used to take less time to travel between Bengaluru and Chennai or Bengaluru and Coimbatore. During that period, travelling between Bengaluru and Chennai on the Brindavan Express took a mere five hours, while the Kovai Express covered the distance to Coimbatore in seven hours. However, these once-speedy premium trains have now lost their pace due to increasing stops along their routes. From being the epitome of convenience and luxury, they have succumbed to slower travel times, much to the dismay of passengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,258,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}