It cost one yen and 21 sen to take the Government Railway Express outbound train from Nagoya Station to Osaka Station; the trip took 6 hours 4 minutes in the daytime and 5 hours 20 minutes in the nighttime, roughly the same as the Kansai Railway Company.
この時、官鉄の下り急行列車は名古屋駅-大阪駅間において昼行が6時間4分、夜行が5時間20分で走破し、運賃も同額の1円21銭であったから、勝負はほぼ互角であった。