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# Trains over planes
- URL: https://journal.jatan.space/trains-over-planes/
- Published: 2024-10-26T15:01:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-26T15:47:49.000Z
- Author: Jatan

I love trains. Why you ask?

- I get to spend hours reading without much interruption from humans.
- ⁠Eating and relaxing is more comfortable in spacious AC train coaches than being cramped in plane seats.
- ⁠With trains you essentially just get in and get out. There’s no fuss of guards, check-ins, microscopic security, gates, relay buses, and luggage pickup.
- And with [Bangalore](https://journal.jatan.space/mumbai-to-bangalore/) in particular, the airport somehow being more than a city’s length outside the city, the air transit hassles and time only add up.
- It saves money too, and reduces carbon emissions.

With increasing rail speeds in India now, however gradually, the odds increasingly seem to favor of this perspective. And so whenever a destination presents an opportunity to chill-read on rail, I grab it. A day before taking an intercity train, I send many longform reads and articles to my Kindle and immerse myself in perusing them without the distraction of a regular day. It’s like a daylong trip with the self. Only if you want it to be.