"Press: This the fastest train in India & averages 50 miles an hour. The river is standard gauge & ran so easily I had no idea we were travelling so fast until our fellow passengers, The countrywe travelled through was the dead level of the Ganges delta the road being formed by flooded rice fields, the transplanting of the rice being just in progress. A short time after dark we crossed the newly completed bridge over the Ganges River which is more than a mile wide at this point. The landscape was golden paddy fields relieved by occasional fields of gir & groves of date palms, & an occasional village. The train carried a dinner whee we had dinner at 7:30. My fellow passengers were quite friendly & talkative.