List Of Top 10 Fastest Trains In India (2023)

Last Updated: 12 March 2023

In India, all the Fastest Trains available are known as Express Trains.

Unlike other trains in India, Express trains make a small number of stops, usually major destinations. This allows faster service than local trains that stop at most or all of the stations along their route.

Limited stops for the Express Trains make them obtain the highest speeds of any train in India. The speed of these Express Trains has been calculated from the latest Indian Railways timetable.

Here is a list of the Top Fastest trains in India which are known for their fastest speed in 2023. Train speeds are given in Km/hr.

List Of Top Fastest Trains In India

No.	Train Name	Category	Max Speed (Km/hr)	Avg Speed (Km/hr)
1	Vande Bharat Express Train 18	Train 18	180	96.8
2	Delhi – Jhansi Gatimaan Express	Gatimaan Express	160	91
3	New Delhi Habibganj Shatabdi Express	Shatabdi Express	150	89
4	Bandra Rajdhani Express	Rajdhani Express	150	97.8
5	Sealdah – New Delhi Duronto Express	Duronto Express	135	85
6	Delhi Airport Metro Express	Delhi Metro	132	95
7	Howrah – Anand Vihar Yuva Express	Yuva Express	130	82
8	Howrah Rajdhani Express	Rajdhani Express	130	85
9	Howrah Ranchi Shatabdi Express	Shatabdi Express	130	74
10	Bandra Terminus Hazrat Nizamuddin Garib Rath Express	Garib Rath	130	82
11	Mumbai Central – Ahmedabad Double Decker Express	Double Decker	130	69
12	Visakhapatnam – New Delhi AP Express	Andhra Pradesh Express	130	76
13	Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Hazrat Nizamuddin AC Express	AC Express	120	76
14	Patna – Mumbai CST Suvidha Superfast Express	Suvidha	110	63
15	Maharashtra Sampark Kranti Express	Sampark Kranti Express	110	69
16	Kota Hazrat Nizamuddin Jan Shatabdi Express	Jan Shatabdi	110	71

India doesn’t have any railways with operational speeds exceeding 200 km/h (120 mph). Trains classified as High-Speed Rail (HSR) exceed the speed of 200 km/h by international standards.

Therefore, India does not have any railways that can be classified as High-Speed Rail (HSR). Trains in the future with top speeds of 250–300 km/h will be available in India by 2040.

The current fastest train in India is the Vande Bharat Express Train 18 also popularly known as Train 18 with an operational speed of 160 km/h (99 mph) and an average speed of 100 km/h (62 mph).

It runs between New Delhi-Katra, Jammu and Kashmir, and New Delhi-Varanasi.

N.B: The trains in India have a five-digit and four-digit numbering system.

Facts About Indian Railways

Indian Railways was founded on 8^th May 1845.

Indian Railways manages the Fourth-largest railway network in the world by size, with a total route length of 126,611 km (78,610 mi) as of 31 December 2021.

45,881 km (28,509 mi) or 35% of all the broad-gauge routes are electrified with 25 kV 50 Hz AC electric traction as of 1 April 2021.

In the fiscal year ending March 2020, Indian Railways carried 808.6 crores (8.086 billion) passengers and transported 121.23 crores (1.2123 billion) tonnes of freight.

Indian Railways runs 1 lakh (100,000) passenger trains daily, on both long-distance and suburban routes, covering 7,325 stations across India.

Mail or Express trains, the most common type of trains, run at an average speed of 50.6 km/h (31.4 mph). Suburban EMUs run at an average speed of 37.5 km/h (23.3 mph). Ordinary passenger trains (incl. mixed) run at an average speed of 33.5 km/h (20.8 mph). The maximum speed of passenger trains varies, with the Gatimaan Express running at a peak speed of 160 km/h (99 mph).

The Vande Bharat Express, previously known as Train 18, is a semi-high-speed, electric multiple-unit train operated by Indian Railways on 5 routes as of November 2022. It was designed and manufactured by the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) under the leadership of Sudhanshu Mani at Perambur, Chennai under the Make in India initiative.

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