Indian Railways is one of the largest and busiest rail networks in the world. Indian Railways transport 18 million passengers daily and more than 2 million tonnes of freight dialy. If you don't know, Indian Railways is also world's largest commercial/utility employer (more than 12 million employees).
I always wonder why Indian Railway Maps are not digitized. Every time you search for Indian Railway Maps, you end up with mapsofindia.com. That is frustrating. When Google launched its Map APIs, I was so desperate to create Indian Trains Google Mashup but the job that pays my bill always comes in my way. Guess what? I finally found a website which shows all the Indian trains on the Google Map with their train routes plotted on Google Map.
The website is called IndiaRailInfo.com. The site may not have the best design in the world but hey.. if you look at the features of that site, you will be amazed.
IndiaRailInfo.com lets you search for "From" and "To" station and gives you available trains for your destination. I know lot of sites do that but IndiaRailInfo also gives you an option to look at the train route on Google Map. If you select the train, it gives you the list of stations with arrival and departure timings on each station.
If you select your origin and destination, it gives you the result with detail breakdown of list of all trains, direct trains, evening trains, morning trains etc. If the train is currently running, you can see the current position of the train on Google Map. You can also check the status of your PNR, check out popular trains, City Railway Stations on the map, arrivals, departures and so much. I was really impressed by the efforts they have put in to develop the site.
The site is also available in Hindi so if you don't know english, you can get all this information in Hindi. Note to the owner of IndiaRailInfo..I really liked the idea of displaying your website in Hindi but your Google Maps are still in English. If you don't know about this feature, Developers Now Can Show Google Maps in Hindi. Check out this article and give your Hindi Speaking visitors a chance to surf the Google Map in Hindi.
Best of all, the site is an ad-free, non-commercial website. Check out IndiaRailInfo.com
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2010-05-31 14:50:21 | Govind - Want to Know the status of any Indian Rail onlineI want the website inwhich we can see the train position by GPS if enter any train no so i get the trains status as this train leave this station.....its show online train running status.
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2010-05-29 16:34:07 | Ravish - The Best Architecture I have ever seenindiarailinfo.com is a great example of software engineering.. If anybody knows who is running the site.. pls mention
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2009-04-17 07:47:05 | Manoj - Railway Info Very fast:) :grin ;) Hai.This is venkat ..I Searched info for railway ticket fare for my Journey frm chennai to trichy..frm the website..www.indiantrains.org It is very fast..for but Not able to book in the website if the indianrail and this indiantrains joined means surely it will give benefit for all of us...
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2009-04-17 04:18:15 | Ahamed - india rail info slowhi
I tried to using indianrail info but it was very slow. Then I found another one is indiantrains.org it is really good and its faster than the indian rail info.
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2009-04-16 04:30:14 | Ahamed - Join Indianrail info map & train statusHi
Indian rail info does not show live train info on the google map. Basically if a train lefty chennai egmore and has not yet arrived in tambaram, the map still shows chennai egmore. The website indiantrains.org gives live information on trains. So if indianrail info website joins up with indiantrains.org, maybe they can provide a map with exact locvation of trains.
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2009-01-28 12:51:22 | Vineet - great siteThis is a great site to have any kind of Indian Rail information. One feature that you missed in your blog is, this site also shows alternate routes from source to destination. I liked this feature most, as there are many such routes where there is no direct train available and this site let us know which all routes can be followed for such journey.
Kudos to the site owner and developers and people who are continously maintaining the real time data onto the site.
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2008-11-07 17:19:52 | Vijay - good jobThanks for sharing the information. You have a well-written blog. Also, the rail site is indeed very useful. Makes me proud to be an Indian. With India now being associated with IT throughout the world, we need more and more native show-case products that show off India's technology prowess. Cheers.
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