Indian Railways

Hill station link stations detail.

Simla (SML)
Hill train to Simla start from Kalka (KLK) . Kalka is linked with Chandigarh (CDG), Ambala (UMB) and Delhi (DLI). Direct train to Kalka is from Delhi and Howrah.

Ooty (UAM)
Hill train to Ooty (UAM) start from Metupalaiyam (MTP). Metupalaiyam is linked with Coimbatore. One direct train from Chennai to Metupalyam.

Darjeeling (DJ)
Hill train to Darjeeling start from New Jalpaiguri(NJP). New jalpaiguri is linked with all the major railway stations.

KodaiKannal
Nearest Railway Station is Kodaikannal Road and Dindigul. Dindigul is linked with Trichy, Madurai, Chennai.

Matheran (MAE)
Hill train to Matheran start from Neral (NRL). Neral is linked with Kalyan, Panvel, Mumbai and Pune.

Mahabaleshwar
Nearest railway station is Wathar which is 62 K.M. But Pune is the convenient Railway station which is 120 K.M from Mahabaleshwar.

Dalhousie
Hill train to Dalhousie start from Pathankot. You have to reach Pathankot or ChakkiBank to Catch this hill train. Pathankot is linked with Delhi, Ambala and all the Major Stations.

Yercaud
Nearest railway station is Salem (24 K.M) Salem is linked with all the major stations Chennai, Coimbatore, Bangalore.

Srinagar
Nearest Railway station is Jammu. Jammu is linked with Delhi, Ambala and all the Major stations

Mount Abu
Nearest railway station is Abu Road .Major station to reach Abu Road is Ahmadabad, Mumbai, Jodhpur and Delhi

Mussorie
Nearest Railway Station is Dehradoon . Major station to reach Dehradoon is Delhi, Saharanpur, Haridwar and Ambala

Nainitaal
Nearest Railway station is Kathgodam .Major station to reach Kathgodam is Delhi, Mordabad and Bareilly.

Munnar
Nearest Railway Station is Kochi. Major station to reach Kochi is Chennai, Coimbatore, Trivandrum and Shornur Jn.

Valaparai
Nearest Railway station is Pollachi. Major station to reach Pollachi is Coimbatore, Palghat Jn.

Pilgrimage Destination Link stations

Shirdi- Kopergaon (Major station to reach Kopergaon is Daund Jn and Manmad)

Mantralayam –Nearest railway station is Mantralayam Road. (Major station to reach Mantralayam Road is Chennai, Guntkal, Bangalore,)

Puttapurthi-Sri S Pranshant Nilayam (Major station to reach Sri S Pranshant Nilyam is Bangalore, Gooty.)

Rameshwaram-Major station to reach Rameshwaram is Chennai Egmore, Tiruchchirappalli, and Madurai

Tirupati- Major Station to reach Tirupati is Katpadi, Renigunta, Chennai, and Gudur

Badrinath- Haridwar (major station to reach Haridwar is Delhi, Ambala, Saharanpur, Dehradoon)

Haridwar – Major station to reach Haridwar is Delhi, Saharanpur, and Ambala

Kanyakumari-Major station to reach Kanyakumari is Trivandrum, Nagercoil and Chennai.

Madurai-Major station to reach is Chennai, Trichy.

Udupi-Major station to reach Udupi is Mangalore.

Vaishnodevi-Nearest Railway station is Jammu Tawi. (Major Railway station to reach Jammu Tawi is Delhi, Ambala, and Pathankot.

Vellankanni-Nearest Railway station is Nagore (NCR). Major Railway station to reach Nagore is Thanjavur, Tiruchchirappalli

Nagore-Major station to reach Nagore is Thanjavur(TJ) and Tiruchchirappali(TPJ)

Amritsar-Major Railway station to reach Amritsar is Delhi, Ambala, and Saharanpur.

Puri-Major railway station to reach Puri is Bhubaneswar, Howrah.

Dwarka-Major Railway station to reach Dwarka (OKHA) is Ahmadabad, Rajkot.

Tourist Destination Link stations

Udaipur-Major Railway station to reach Udaipur is Chittorgarh, Ajmer, Ratlam, Ahmadabad, and Delhi.

Bikaner-Major Railway station to reach Bikaner is Merta Road, Jaipur, Jodhpur and Delhi.

Jaisalmer- Major Railway station to reach Jaisalmer Is Jodhpur, Bikaner and Delhi

Jodhpur-Major Railway Station to reach Jodhpur is Marwar Jn. Jaipur. Ahmadabad, Delhi

Ajmer-Major Railway station to reach Ajmer is Delhi, Jaipur, Ahmadabad and Ratlam

Aurangabad-Major Railway station to reach Aurangabad is Manmad and Hyderabad.

Goa-Major station to reach Goa is Madagaon and Vasco-Da-Gama which is well connected by Mangalore and Mumbai.

Mangalore-Major Railway station to reach Mangalore is Bangalore, Shoranur, and Madgaon.

Agra-Major Railway station to reach Agra is Jaipur, Delhi, and Kanpur.

Khajuraho-Major Railway station to reach Khajuraho is Delhi, Jhansi, and Mahoba.

Today i would like to review all the Indian railways train search websites and their pros and cons. There are 7 train search website as on now and i have surf all the site and find each one has there own pros and cons. I have not seen so much difference in all the website except way of presenting and also look.  I would like to start with the official website first. I have not included the online booking website of indian railway trains in this list as they will be review seprately . For your information they are www.irctc.co.in  and www.thomascook.in . please vote the best site in the right side panel.

http://www.indianrail.gov.in/

This is the official website to search all the Indian railways trains. First it has lot of pop-ups and advertisement which make the user uncomfortable. This site does not show the passenger and express train which do not have a reservation coach. Here a user must know the train name or number and also station code without this information he cannot search the trains. they have given the link for searching the station code but if the user does not know the correct spelling of the station name he cannot get the station code. one more think is for each entry you will have to go to get it from separate page. if you does not know the date of running of the train then also you are not able to search the trains.

pros: official, show the current seat availability

Cons: Bad Presentation, Not user Friendly, Pop-ups, Advertisements , Very slow,

Star received : 0

http://www.trainenquiry.com/

This is also official website of Indian Railways. Here you can search all the trains including passenger and suburban trains except trains of mumbai,chennai,Hyderbad,Howrah suburban trains. You can not see the seat availability position in this website. you can see the current running status of the all the trains. while going through this website i have noticed that it has lots of double entry and wrong data like spelling mistake in the train names and train numbers also are wrong in so many cases. the most interesting thing i have seen that it shows the trains which not exist. the pages has not been updated from last 3 years except the train data all the pages are showing very old data which is giving it a bad name. the same thing we can say for this site also it also has the same problem which indianrail.gov.in have . you must know the train running date, train number, train name , station code, to get the information but here you have a drop menu box to choose the station name if you type 3 first correct word and then you can choose the station name. the other pages except the train data does not have any impact on the website.

Pros: Running status of train, all the passenger and mail express trains of Indian railway,

Cons: bad presentation, not user friendly, double entry, lots of wrong data , data of the trains which are not running and which has been renumbered shows both the numbers, spell mistake in train name, not updated other information pages.

Star received:  1

http://indian-railways.rediff.com/index.php

This site has lot of pop-ups and advertisement. it show only the train which has reservation coaches. and all the pages has lot of advertisement and because of that it opens very slow and it look is good but the presentation of train does not have a good look for each category to see fare, book, availability you will be redirected to another pages to see more advertisement. This website link travel agent to book the ticket . here also if you do not know the exact station name and station spelling it is not possible to check the trains .

Pros: Good looking, correct data,

Cons:unofficial, lot of pop-up, bad presentation,

Star received   2

http://www.cleartrip.com/trains

this website is just another copy of rediff and zoomatra the look and presentation is same as in rediff, The most worse is that they does not have all the train data and also not updated the train data. the train search is not showing all the trains . it does not have pop-up and also does not have lot of advertisement so that it open fast and it has to update the data .

Pros: open fast, no pop-up, some user friendly

Cons:    unofficial, train data are not updated, not showing all the trains,

Star received:      1

http://www.zoomtra.com/indian-railways/

This site look is good and it has a good feature that they give a sms service for pnr status . the page open fast but does not have updated the train data so far after one month of change of train time table. it is not user friendly as all the detail open in a other window. does not show all the trains.

Pros:      SMS service, Open fast,

Cons:  Unofficial, not user friendly, presentation is not good,

Star received:    2

http://www.90di.com/travel/

This site look is good and also this is the only one in this group which search multi trains and links and i am very impressed about this features. it open fast it does not have pop-up and advertisement and also it has more features then all the above sites. the only fault i have seen in this site is the some of trains search are not showing the fast time in multi search trains . i am really very  impressed by this site we cannot find any fault with this site they are updating regularly and also putting new features every month.

Cons:  Unofficial,

Pros:  the one and only multi train search engine, good look, good presentation, open fast.

Star received:      5

http://www.erail.in/

I have not seen such a good site which has so many features in a single page . The better way to search Indian trains looks great and it open fast, no pop-up, user friendly. every information in a single page . this concept is good and some of the features like calendar, train running day has not come in a single website in this reviews. the most important features i have seen in this site that if the user does not know the station code then also he can see all the trains and it is only website which have a drop menu box for the important station from where you can choose the station name and also it has a date calendar from you can choose the date and it show the running day of the train so that you can know which day of the week this train is running. the other most important feature i have seen in this website that it show the train which does not have the reservation coach for the benefit of the user and they are showing the passanger train also which is also not available in any website.

Cons: Unofficial

Pros: all the features which user need, open fast, user friendly, good look and interactive, update data regularly, new features

Star receieved:  5

 

 

NOW WE HAVE ONE MORE ONLINE BOOKING WEBSITE FOR INDIAN TRAINS OTHER THAN www.irctc.co.in. Thomas cook India has been appointed for this service . www.thomascook.in  has done in a simple way to book the ticket and it is very fast and indeed irctc should learn from them how to make it so easy and fast to log in and book a ticket. Thomas cook has done a good job by making this module so simple and also very interactive and it will help the passenger of Indian railway in a big way. now we have a alternative site for booking the train ticket also like train information we have alternative site like www.erail.in  which also give train information in a very simple and all the information in a single page.  Now we can say that we in india have two good website for train information and train online booking which will help the Indian train passangers. we would like that some more online booking site in the future will come and it will give more choice to the consumer to choose the right one.