For RailFans, the Journey itself is the Destination. - Sreerup Patranabis

Yo, just wanna add somethin' to your already well thought-out post. Check it - Kolkata, as a big city and all, has lost way more trains goin' to Delhi than any other metro out there. And that's while the population keeps on boomin'! Instead of addin' more trains to Delhi, they just cut back, know what I'm sayin'? I think it's all part of a plan to force people onto airplanes, and it's kinda workin' but what about the small towns and poor folks who gotta travel in crappy coaches 'cause they can't afford no AC? Standardizin' the trains has been a straight-up nightmare for a lot of people. But luckily, Eastern Railways ain't been hit as hard by this mess, and most of the popular trains still got a decent number of sleeper cars.