Indian railways
Know your
Railway Network
This blog
is written with the interest to inform
our people how to make use of our railway network effectively .
For knowing
all the information about the indian railways I would suggest the http://indiarailinfo.com/.
This site
is very useful for knowing our available trains , train routes , live status
and many more . Listed some of the
interesting information which we can know from the above website
All the
information shared below would be useful for the people who travel the more and
who are eager to travel through trains
1.Train Availability from the nearest
stations (automatically ) and Train
routes :
Here in this website , if you search for the train from point A to B
then then the result shown to us would not only be from A to B .Instead it
would show the trains from stations which are closer (approximately 50 Km) to
point A and similarly the nearest station to point B . For example íf I'm trying for trains running from
Chennai to Mumbai , then the result will also include Chengalpattu to
Mumbai also . Chengalpattu is the
nearest station to Chennai , which many of the first visitor will not know
. Generally only the local people will
know this kind of details . But using this Indianrailinfo.com we can analyse
the train routes like a local person does. In fact this website show 6 trains
between chennai to Mumbai , But the IRCTC website only show 3 trains .Because
IRCTC exactly searches by the keyword chennai . Whereas Indian rail info
searched for the nearest station to chennai also .
2.Platform Number
This is one of interesting
information which we can know through this website . You can exactly know in which platform will
your train come, so that we can keep
ourselves ready in the platform without
expecting information from station master and other people .
The search also shows the intermediate station between A and B , where we can getting down
and board another to reach our destination .
For example :- If you don’t get the
ticket from Mumbai to Chennai . Then you
will be also shown an option where you can get down in Bangalore / hyderabad then get the next train to chennai . All
these information are shown in a single page . It is called as ∑ Chains . It will display the list of intermediate
station available , you can select the intermediate station of your choice
4.Live train status.
You can check the live train status at any time in computer and also in
mobile .
The following is the train
12235/Dibrugarh - New Delhi Rajdhani Express. The current status of the train
is shown in the blue color train symbol - near lucknow .
In the following image see the Rake composition . Whereas
A and B series
|
Always represents
3AC
|
S Series-
|
Always represents
Sleeper class
|
2S
|
Represents Second
Sitting
|
LOCO
|
Enigne
|
PC
|
Pantry car
|
6.Seat availabilty
We can also check the seat availability in a particular train . We will come to know in which date the seat is available. For example , if you are planning to go on a Friday and ticket is not available on that day . Then you can find the availability of the ticket for the next 2 months fully in a calendar format .
For the example in the following image , please note that the 3A ticket is not available on16 feb , but on 18th and 19th Feb the ticket are available . Like this it show the availability for the next 2 months - this will be very helpful when you are booking the tickets for a group of people traveling together .
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