Indian Railways

New Trains announced in the Railway Budget 2009-10 are as follows. Some of the trains are running now as special trains. Date and Train number will be announced later. This trains are expected to run as regular train after October 2009.

· Bilaspur - Tirunelveli via Thiruvanathpuram Express (Weekly) as 0650

· Ranchi -Jaynagar Express (Tri-weekly)

· Secunderabad – Manuguru Superfast (Daily) running with 7050

· Mumbai - Karwar Superfast (Tri-weekly) as 0109

· Bhopal - Lucknow Junction Garib Rath Express (Weekly) as 0528 special

· Durg - Jaipur Express (Weekly) as 0891

· Chhatrapati Sahu terminal(Kolhapur)–Dhanbad Link Service via Parasnath (Weekly)

· Sengottai - Erode Passenger (Daily)

· Dibrugarh Town - Chandigarh Express (Weekly) running now as 0543

· Ajmer - Bhagalpur via Delhi Garib Rath Express (Bi-weekly)

· Nizamuddin – Bangalore via Kacheguda Rajdhani Express (Tri-weekly)

· Barauni - Delhi Jan Sadharan Superfast (Bi-weekly)

· Mumbai – Varanasi Superfast (Daily) running now as 0125

· Mysore -Yesvantpur Express (Daily)

· Jamalpur – Gaya Passenger

· Koraput – Rourkela Express via Rayagada (Daily)

· Agra - Ajmer Superfast (Daily)

· Sitamarhi – Patna Link Service (Daily)

· Tiruchchirapalli - Madurai Express (Daily)

· Mumbai - Bikaner Superfast (Bi-weekly) now running as 0941 between Ahmedabad and Bikaner

· Jaynagar – Ajmer Link Service (Bi-weekly)

· Agra - Lucknow Junction Shatabdi Express (Daily)

· Gandhidham - Kolkata Superfast (Weekly)

· New Delhi – Guwahati Rajdhani Express via Bhagalpur (Weekly)

· Mumbai - Tirunelvelli Superfast via Thiruvanathpuram (Bi-weekly)

· Jammu Tawi – Darbhanga Garib Rath Express (Weekly)

· Saharsa – Delhi via Express Patna (Weekly)

· Gwalior - Bhopal Intercity Express via Guna (5 days a week)

· Coimbatore -Tuticorin Link Service (Daily)

· Howrah -Haridwar Superfast (5 days a week) running as 0335

· Machhalipatnam – Mumbai Superfast (Bi-weekly)

· Varanasi - Jammu Tawi Superfast (Daily)

· Gorakhpur - Mumbai Superfast (Daily) running as 0172

· Jhajha – Patna MEMU

· New Delhi – Palwal MEMU

· New Delhi – Guwahati Rajdhani Express via Muzaffarpur (Weekly)

· Veraval – Mumbai Link service (Daily)

· Ranchi –Patna Jan Shatabdi (Daily)

· Jhansi – Chhindwara Superfast (Bi-weekly)

· Mumbai – Jodhpur Express (Weekly) running as 0913

· Hajipur – Bagaha Link Service

· Howrah – Delhi Link Service via Azimganj- Bhagalpur (Weekly)

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Sitamarhi –Delhi Garib Rath Express via Patna (Weekly)

www.erail.in is updated with new version. Now it becomes more users friendly. Default color has been changed to vista Blue which gives a good look. Home page link has been created. Keyboard function for all station search list. Now you can choose the station name from keyboard up & down buttons. From now on user can see the trains which pass through the station but does not have halt in the search query, so that user can choose nearby station if he wish to travel by that particular train. Passenger trains have been added with express trains. Now user can see all the trains between a given routes in a single list. Arrival and departure has been added for all stations. Now you can click on AD next to route drop menu box to get the particular station all trains arrival and departure, you have chosen in drop menu box. For the route which do not have any trains you will get a message and link where you can send the mail and get the short route or link station detail from the page itself. Tips have been given for all the headers. Take your mouse cursor on any header or word to get the detail. Sorting highlights has given for all the headers in the train list. Default sorting is train Number now. Separate link has been given for the summer special trains in home page. Yatra package for Rameshwaram has been launched. All the important links has been given in the home page. Separate color has been given to Rajdhani, Shatabadi , Garibrath, Superfast ,Mail &express Trains and passenger trains in train name list. Any query, error report or feedback can be send from home page itself. Route link has been created below the train list so that users can copy this link and send to anyone.

Today Indian railways blocked showing seat availability and pnr status data from all the train information sites which were giving the information in user-friendly manner. This is really a monopoly nothing else. In this information age Indian railways blocking all the sites means they are not interested about public . they have auctioned the website for ad at 4.5 crore to a private agency. they want to earn money nothing else. The guys who started this private sites to show the train information to public at the public interest and also a passion to create something new, CRIS (centre for Railway Information system)who manage the official website of Indian railways have never updated there information pages as they are govt. servant and you know what could expect from them.Showing information of public domain is not illegal but it helps public. Has anyone given the complaint about any of this site that they are showing wrong information. they are just showing the same page of Indian railway official website in a interactive and user friendly manner. If Indian railways or CRIS are really interested of public then they can also show the information on a user friendly manner and also get the good public response

For example www.erail.in never store the live data of pnr status and seat availability in their server. They were showing the original page of www.indianrail.gov.inand that also all the information in a single page. in this age monopoly will not work if someone go to the court CRIS will surely going to lost the case , there are so many examples of showing information of public importance by private entrepreneurs. All the news paper showing the train departure and arrival time,seat availability every week and some newspaper show daily because it helps general public . instead of blocking the private site CRIS should have welcome them as they are helping public when the Indian railway server is down (which is always slow) and the important public information cannot be copyright.

We must as citizens fight to promote such efforts and not succumb to hegemony of government departments. The official website ranking is dropping every month (see www.alexa.com) and  they are fearing of competition. Instead of competition they are warning and blocking the new comers who are having a passion to do something for Indian public.

Indian railways should consider this private  site as a better alternative and not competition. After all cooperation is better than competition.

 compare this private site with the official sites yourself and see what this new boys has done without thinking of money (Except google adwords they do not get any revenue from this sites) which is the only motto of Indian railways and CRIS.

http://erail.in/

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

On this great day of gandhi jayanti erail have launch passenger and unreserved express trains search in http://www.erail.in .They have given a drop menu box to choose for passanger and unreserved express train or express and reserved trains in the top of the window . By default it will be express and reserved trains and if you want to check for the passenger trains then change from drop menu box and choose passenger and unreserved trains.Now you can choose any option of searching the express or passanger trains. wishing you a happy journey.

erail.in has added some more features. They have added senior male and senior female fares in their site and also added exact fare option also . They have also added a forum for any query about indian trains. One more new feature is Trains at glance in excel sheet in very attractive way where you can search by table numer and also by train number. The most important feature they have added is passanger train in their search which is useful to passangers. Also added train departure and arrival from a particular station for next 24 hours, which give more comfort to the passanger to get full timetable of trains from a particular station. just choose your station from drop menu box or click on all stations and type your station name or station code and click on 24 hours tab (number 9) . The site is becoming more and more interactive with this features.