Live Train Platform Enquiry for Secunderabad, Hyderabad, Kacheguda, Guntakal, Guntur 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.

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.

Now track and spot Indian trains geographical location on Google maps on a real-time basis

Information about Indian trains geographical position on Google map provided by Indian Railways.

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.

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