Slow train and fast train... what is the difference ?

Question

i gone to a college to attend a function. There is a discussion about the trains. one student said ''i know slow train'' and continued that the slow trains will stop in all stations... Thereafter another student gave speech about the trains and while concluding his speech he said, my friend told you about the slow trains, now i say about the fast trains.. we saw him eagerly thinking that he will say about the 'superfast trains''.. he said that the fast trains are the trains which will have a stop in between the stations.. we laughed.

Answer 1

The students are right.  of course, they are fast trains and have limited stops, no doubt but they stop sometimes between the stations is true.  This is in india.

Answer 2

... Fast trains skip a few stations and only stop at the main ones =S

Answer 3

Your fellow classmates were essentially correct.  "Fast" or "express" trains make limited scheduled stops in an effort to reach its destination as quickly as possible and usually travel over long distances, such as several hundred miles.  

"Slow trains" are either commuter trains making frequent stops to take folks from home to work and vice versa or "feeder" trains that make many stops to then, usually, take passengers on to the locations where the express trains do stop to then catch that train.

Answer 4

Under the British system the trains are divided into classes of which the highest is class 1. This is an express, or fast train. This includes mail trains which have to travel at high speed. Class 1 trains have priority over all other trains.

In steam days a class 1 train carried a lamp over each buffer at the front.

Below class 1 there are the other groups of trains which include ordinary passenger trains or stopping trains, then the goods trains. Passenger trains, whatever their status, always have priority over goods.

In the days when there were far more goods and slower passenger trains than today, many stations had loop lines or refuge sidings where a slower train could be shunted to allow a faster train to overtake.

Answer 5

Meter gauge train (ie) electric train will stop in all stations is a slow train

Broad gauge train will stop in selected stations & will move fast.