PNR Status - Check Indian Railways Train Ticket Reservation Status Online

Getting a confirmed ticket is a big battle in itself. Sometimes, while booking a ticket, all available seats exhausted and you left with a wait listed ticket.

Now you can check your wait listed ticket status online. There are multiple websites available which will give you information but this application is slightly different.

Now get SMS alerts on the change of status of your reserved tickets

Indian Railways added another milestone by launching yet another innovative scheme called the ‘SMS Gateway’, which will enable passengers to get SMS alerts on the status of reserved tickets. The ‘SMS Gateway’ which was developed by Centre for Railway information Systems (CRIS), an autonomous organization under the Ministry of Railways, was launched by the Minister of State for Railways Shri Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury here today on the occasion of a seminar on the theme “Role of IT in Rail Services – Present and Future”. The seminar was organised by the Centre for Transportation Research and Management (CTRAM), an autonomous body of the Ministry of Railways. Present on occasion the were Shri Arunendra Kumar, Chairman, Railway Board, Shri D. P. Pande, Member Traffic, Shri Kul Bhushan, Member Electrical and Shri Alok Johri, Member Mechanical, of Railway Board.

Book Train Ticket by SMS or USSD without Internet

Now Book your train tickets using Mobile Phone, anywhere and anytime WITHOUT using Internet connection. Train passengers will be able to use their mobile phones to book tickets through a simple text-messaging-based-SMS facility or a menu-based dialling service–USSD service. Currently, only registered IRCTC users can use these services.

Train Ticket Refund Calculator v1.0 by Digitzz

Once I postponed my train journey and cancelled my confirmed ticket. I got my refund money after deducting some cancellation charges from the ticket fare but the charges deducted was more than expected. I sent email to IRCTC to get the details of deduction charges and how they deduct cancellation charges. I realized that if we could know that how IRCTC deduct the charges from fare, it will help us to save our money.

Live Train Platform Enquiry and Current Reservation Status for all Delhi Stations

If you are going for a train journey then surely after reaching at station entrance you will look for the platform number at notice board for your train which is coming or going to depart from. What if you already know before reaching station that at so and so platform your train will come. i can see smile on your face.

Train running information live !

www.simran.in

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Some days ago i found a very useful site name www.simran.in

Hey ! its not a name of a beautiful lady who is running her website.

It is very useful site which provide real time train running info of selected Indian trains.
Presently this service is available on Pilot/Trial Basis for selected trains(12001, 12002, 12003, 12004, 12005, 12006, 12011, 12012, 12013, 12014, 12017, 12018, 12033, 12034, 12235, 12236, 12423, 12424, 12435, 12436, 22423, 22424, 12301, 12302, 12305, 12306, 12313, 12314, 12431, 12432, 12951, 12952, 12953, 12954, 12259, 12260) only.

> Its shows following stats:

• Train Number
• Train Name + [ Train start date ]
• Next Stop + [ Kms. to run to reach this stop ]
• Train Status: RD:Route Diversion | RT:Right Time | DR:Destination Reached | DT:Departure Time | LT:Late Time
• Nearest Station + [ S: Standing at station | R:Reached station | A:Approaching station ]
• Speed: Live speed of train in kmph

> Besides these if you will click on train no. then it will show to you list of all the stations which will come across during the whole journey with additional details of Cumulative distance(km), Distance(km), Station code, Station name, Arrival Time, Departure time, Passing time and days. Time is mentioned in 24 hours format like 1655 for 04:55 PM.

> More over if you will click on train then it will show you particular coach number and position from engine.It also show picture of the same arrangement.

> if you will click on next stop then it will show map of stoppage and current stop of train.

>You can get the information on your mobile phone also, Just SMS train number to 09415139139.

> This site is also available in 10 Indian languages like Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil etc.

> This site auto refresh every 01 min so you get real time information.

This site is part of Indian railways RTIS (Real time information system) jointly developed by IIT Kanpur and Indian Railways.

So go to www.simran.in and get the real time information.

Book train ticket on IRCTC website in lessor time

Book train ticket on IRCTC website in lessor time

When IRCTC website opens Tatkal reservation at 10:00 AM in the morning, you stick to your computer to get a tickets. There are limited number of seats reserved for Tatkal quota and fills seats on first come first served basis.

Most of the time it happens that  the seats are often gone by the time you fill this passenger details form.

if you can fill the passenger details in lessor time then your chances of getting ticket will be higher.

Think what if only one click can fill your passenger details automatically.

Now you are thinking HOW it's possible?

When i was searching some web utility on different topic i found a very useful tool for train ticket reservation on IRCTC website.

This is called Magic Autofill- its a replica of passenger detail form on IRCTC.

How to use
Step 1:
When you want to reserve the tickets, just fill your passenger details in this form. 
Step 2:
After filling your details click the button "I'm feeling lucky" then it will generate a button called " Magic Autofill ".
Step 3:
Just drag and add that "Magic Autofill " button to your bookmark toolbar. 
Now you details are saved in this form in offline mode.

Step 4:
Go to IRCTC, when you reach to the passenger details form, just click that  Magic Autofill bookmark you saved earlier and with the blink of eye your details are filled in the IRCTC form automatically.

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Source: labnol.org