The Indian Railways will soon cut short the running time of over 500 long distance trains by up to two hours. <br/><br/>The new timings will be updated in the November timetable of the railways. <br/><br/>This has been made possible due to incorporation of innovative timetabling. The new timetable will also provide railways two to four hours for maintenance works.<br/><br/>The railways has also started the exercise of an internal audit through which 50 mail and express trains will be upgraded to super-fast services. <br/><br/>This is part of an overhaul of the rail system of increasing the average speed of existing trains.