Train Enquiry

Thousands and thousands of people travel from train every day. IRCTC (Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited) is the website for online enquiries and reservation of railway tickets. You can check everything including train schedules, ticket availability, and reservation status and buy tickets online. You can make reservation in any of the trains (Rajdhani, Shatabdi, Duronto, Garib Rath etc) to your destination.

For enquiring about particular train, you need to know about the name of the train or number. Visit the irctc website and go in the enquiries section. Click on train enquiry and you will be directed to a new page. You need to insert train name or train number. The portal will search accordingly and show you the results. You can then check for different days and also see stoppages in the route. You will be shown date, train name, station name, scheduled arrival time, delay in arrival, actual expected arrival, scheduled departure time, delay in departure, actual expected departure. Hence, every detail concerning the particular train will be available to you so you can plan accordingly. It gets updated regularly as well.

Example: If you want to search for himachal express, you can enter its name in the search box. After search, it will show you train number, total stoppages. Then you can choose the day of travel for further details. Any delay in departure or arrival will be shown and you can plan visit accordingly.

If you are looking for general train enquiries, you can go to train between stations. Fill up the information shown in the page which has source station and final station, travel dates, one way or return journey etc. You will be shown a list of trains. Choose the desired train and click on get schedule. You will see complete details which will include station names on the travel route of train, arrival and departure time at each station, halt time between stations, distance from source station, and day on which each station will be reached. Additionally, you can also check fares, availability, running status etc. Apart from train enquiries, you can also make PNR enquiries, reservation enquiries etc. Before booking, you can also get discount if you are in certain categories like defense, duty pass, parliament quota etc. Also keep identification papers like Pan card, voter photo identity card etc as it will be required by railways officials when you board the train.

Frank Antire - About Author:
Author is an associate for Train Enquiry and Shatabdi Trains. IRCTC Indian Railways Train Reservation can be done effortlessly at MakeMyTrip.

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