Now there is a official way of knowing the current status of train in Indian railway. Three years back I had posted about the a third party site which gives you the best possible location of a running train. The IT department of Indian Railways has cleaned up there website and trainenquiry.com and redesigned in the new version.
You can get access to the beta version of the website at the following URL
http://www.trainenquiry.com/searchtrain.aspx
Click on “Go to the new look” button to get to the following screen where there is a search with auto suggest box and you can search with the station names after which the train is named. Once you select your train it will show you the latest known position of the train and amount of time it is running late. I doubt you will see any train before time given the track record of Indian Railway.
It will be great to see the position in the map too , but they have done a great job by showing the relative distance covered in a slider.
I always has a feeling that Indian government websites are primarily designed for Internet Explorer but these days I see many websites including Indian Railway runs well in Firefox and Google Chrome. In fact few days back I got an email from IRCTC that there is a minimal version of website ( https://www.irctc.co.in/mobile ) to book tickets specially designed for Tablets and Mobile Phones. The above website which gives the live running status also claims the same. It is great to see railways adopting technology for convenience of passenger.
One of the notable thing is the announcement where IRCTC appeals not to take the print out of the electronic ticket while traveling. They are encouraging to carry the electronic versionin Mobile and iPad. However one of my friends was asked to show the circular in which it says you may not bring the print out and show the electronic version instead. Refer to the official notice numbers at the bottom for the circular. You may want to quote the same in this kind of situation. In either case you have to carry the a valid photo ID card accepted by railway.
| 1) Railway Board Letter No.2008/TG-I/10/P/SMS dated 20.07.2011 |
| 2) Railway Board Letter No.2008/TG-I/10/P/SMS dated 01.02.2012 |
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Lavlesh Divedi
May 14, 2012 at 12:41 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Status of Kaifiate Express.
Anurag Pillai
May 30, 2012 at 10:58 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
17621
Nitin Saraf
June 4, 2012 at 8:02 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
very nice
sajid
June 13, 2012 at 1:25 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
status of hawra amdabhad exp
Chandeep Marwah
July 1, 2012 at 8:14 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
train the ki time hae.
Ajaykumar Shinde
July 16, 2012 at 2:32 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
nice
Anonymous
July 19, 2012 at 10:12 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
very nice.
Vikash Kumar Sinha
July 21, 2012 at 5:22 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
always trains comes late…
Gulab Singh
July 22, 2012 at 6:29 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
CURRENT STATUS OF TODAYS 13008.
Sanjay Srivastava
July 26, 2012 at 6:05 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
current status of 16333 vrl tvc exp.
R K SINHA
August 6, 2012 at 4:12 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
give me today’s current of train no. 12721
Vishnupriya Vaishali
August 19, 2012 at 10:25 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
very helpful info.
Anonymous
August 24, 2012 at 1:48 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
train status 3 step it is going only. Not showing the Result.What could you be problem.please verify the working or not properly Regards surya.
Arun Somani
September 28, 2012 at 6:11 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
current status of mahananda 14084 at wat time wil it reach njp
Saurav Sharma
October 3, 2012 at 3:40 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
current status of 12329.
Jai Veer
October 9, 2012 at 3:15 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
12288
chandrashekhar
October 20, 2012 at 8:20 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
indian train not time to time work
Gautam Saha
November 6, 2012 at 10:47 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
current status of Coromandel Express from chennai dated 6.11.2012.
07332246968
November 28, 2012 at 12:30 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
please current status of 11093
Alok Kumar
December 2, 2012 at 2:01 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
22912
Shashank Bansal
January 17, 2013 at 12:37 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
current status of 12176
Vishal Karande
February 13, 2013 at 4:33 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
12140
Vishal Karande
February 13, 2013 at 4:37 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Sevagram exp 12140
Avbvkvprasad Prasad
February 21, 2013 at 11:04 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
status of train 12830.
Avbvkvprasad Prasad
February 21, 2013 at 11:05 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
status of train bhuwaneswar to chennai train no:12830.
laxmeesha bs
March 20, 2013 at 12:46 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Status of 22129
Abhaya Pal Singh
April 7, 2013 at 3:09 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Status of Train 12152 Samarsata Exp.
Rajendra
April 21, 2013 at 4:00 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Please tell me current position on t no. 18477