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Dear devotees of TN, I dont have rampages of this family train but if you consider speed and avg is the only criteria, then
Godavar : Travel Time: 3h 18m 1 halts Distance: 208 km Avg Speed: 63 km/hr
TN : Travel Time: 3h 25m 0 halts Distance: 208 km Avg Speed: 60 km/hr
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between WL and BZA as that is the only common part. Its clearly visible that Godavari has higher avg speed with 1 stop. By giving this info, Even I might appear to myself as an Idiot but to prove you, I dont mind stepping into your shoes.
But, I still agree that TN is faster than Godavari because its runs on better route of North India than wl bza mas stretch.
With 6 halts, it can do much better.
And slack for Godavari is also so high.
you can also see the halts from rjy to vskp and halts of TN.
And what crap, you are comparing a train which runs for 2000kms with a train to 700 kms? Where is the sense ?

PIC 1 & 2 : And on April - 01 - 13, due to loco failure AP was delayed more than 5 hrs and TN closely followed AP from Babupet and AP might have arrived BPQ at 6:24 p.m...But it was slowed down just before BPQ and Belampalli to provide smooth run for AP...
PIC-3 : AP's unscheduled halt at BPQ on 13 - JAN...
bro, that day on 13 - JAN AP had an more than scheduled halt time for 30 min...seems to be a technical reason...AP was rescheduled that time and...
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even it followed SEB from MTJ - HBJ...Same case with 12171 overtaking AP as AP used to run as intercity from AGC - NDLS...