Oh, this is the trip you were talking about. Sounds like you don't travel that much or you mean to say, that you don't travel that much by train. I haven't taken a train in the last 25 years! So this does bring a lot of memories from my childhood! Where in Orissa are you? 9 hours to Kolkata? Seems a lot...
I am at Bhubaneswar, the Capital, it should have taken a little over 7 hrs, but got delayed. Shatabdi takes the lowest time.