Showing posts with label Indian railways. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indian railways. Show all posts

Wednesday, 22 August 2012

Get IRCTC SMS again if IRCTC ticket booking SMS failed

Get IRCTC SMS Again if IRCTC Ticket Booking Confirmation SMS Failed

IRCTC ticket booking SMS is still undelivered to your mobile! So you want to make IRCTC SMS resent by IRCTC. All right! Know it how to get IRCTC ticket confirmation SMS again if somehow SMS sent by IRCTC is not received to mobile.
What is IRCTC Ticket Booking Confirmation SMS
After booking online rail ticket from IRCTC website, an IRCTC user gets ticket confirmation SMS from IRCTC. The SMS so sent to mobile number of IRCTC user contains important passenger information such as PNR, train number, date of journey, class type info, source & destination station codes, passenger name, coach number, seat number, fare amount, surcharge amount, etc. Due to IRCTC’s “go green” initiative, these days, IRCTC Ticket SMS may be used as e-ticket while traveling in train. So rail passengers also dont want to take a printout of IRCTC e-ticket instead they want to receive IRCTC ticket confirmation SMS in their mobile phone so that they can show that SMS whenever ticket checking staff in train asks them for the ticket.
Why Resending  of IRCTC SMS is Needed
Since IRCTC SMS may also be treated as a replacement of PrintOut of e-Ticket. So people who booked IRCTC e-Ticket require confirmation message to retain in their mobiles. For various reasons resending of IRCTC SMS is needed, few of them are:-
Due to mobile network problem, at times, IRCTC SMS is not delivered to the users mobile after the ticket booking process is completed.
Since rail traveler can travel in train without e-ticket print out so resending of IRCTC SMS is necessary if the previous sent ticket confirmation SMS by IRCTC is lost any way.
Ticket confirmation SMS sent by IRCTC may be, sometimes, undelivered for some technical reasons also.
It is also possible that IRCTC users receive the ticket confirmation message after completion of e-ticket booking process by IRCTC but SMS got deleted accidentally or otherwise.
Some users want to get IRCTC SMS resent for checking if SMS resending facility is working correctly.
Besides above, there may be some other reasons also for getting
IRCTC SMS again.
How to Get IRCTC SMS Again
IRCTC online user, who wants to get IRCTC SMS again for any e-ticket booked, have to follow these easy steps:
Log in to your IRCTC online account.
Click on plus (+) of “My Transaction” link from the left tab. For this, you will be prompted to enter your IRCTC password once again.
Now, click on “Booked History” link.
You will see that the recently booked tickets details are displayed in the right tab.
Now, select your particular ticket for which you want to get “IRCTC confirmation SMS again”.
Finally click on “Get SMS” button (situated in the most left).
You are done now; you will soon get the IRCTC confirmation SMS again to your mobile number.

This way an IRCTC user can easily gets IRCTC ticket confirmation SMS once more.
By now you have known how to get ticket re-SMS from IRCTC. Hence, you don’t have to worry if the ticket confirmation SMS is undelivered at the time of e-ticket booking or somehow IRCTC SMS is mistakenly deleted from your cell-phone. You can re-receive IRCTC SMS to your mobile using the easy steps described above to re-get SMS from IRCTC.

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Sunday, 5 August 2012

Train Running Status – Running Trains Information

Track Train Running Information – Running Status of Trains – Live Train Enquiry

Train running status is now ready at new version train enquiry site running presently in beta mode. To fulfill latest technological needs of train travelers, Indian railways recently made significant changes in train enquiry website. Ajax based train enquiry site enables you to search and view train running information quickly. Track train status any time at train enquiry.

Train Running Status at New Version Train Enquiry


Train running information is available at previous train enquiry website also for a long time and most rail passengers still love to view running train information from old site. However, some modern passengers access train running information with latest train enquiry site only because it is assumed that new site gives accurate train running status without any delay.

Easiest User Interface of Train Running Status Enquiry

The best thing about this site is that you don’t need to remember your train number or railway station codes. New train enquiry website has two tabs for searching and tracking train running information. The two tabs on train enquiry website are Trains and Stations. On the Trains tab visitor has options to enter in the search box – train number or train name or source or destination or a combination of these. However, in the search box of Stations tab user can enter either station name or station code. You can see it that when you start entering few characters of train name/number or railway station name/code the list below the search box is getting filled up with a list of trains or stations respectively. This is due to Ajax based latest search technique.

Advantages of New Version Train Running Information Site

Following are the notable advantages of new version train enquiry site for providing train running status:
Locate your train, in seconds.
Reduce your waiting time by tracking your train’s exact location and arrival time
Information such as train time table, live running status/position of a train, coach position, etc. is available with a simple search.
Train running information is shown with graphical train position.
To know train running status you don’t need to remember train name, stations name, train number, station code in full. Simply fill up the search box with few characters of train name, stations name, train number, station code, etc. The site automatically gives you list according to your search query to select appropriate train or station.
After you select the exact train, train running information site fetches various details about the train. Those are current status of the train (on-time, delayed, reached destination, etc.), last location updated time of the train, next two stops and expected time of arrival (ETA), previous two stops and departure time.
Equipped with more intelligent and robust train-timing prediction engine which give precise results.
This train running information site is also accessible through tablets and smart-phones.
Updates train running information in nearly real time.

How Does New Train Running Information Work

New edition of TrainEnquiry.com facilitates journeys by allowing passengers of Indian Railways to search and find information associated with the trains running across the country. Information such as train time table, live running status | position of a train, coach position etc. is available with a simple search.

Open Train Running Information Home Page

For making enquiry on current train running information you have to go to the URL: 
http://www.trainenquiry.com/searchtrain.aspx

Search for specific train

To search any specific train you have to type one of the following in search box:
5 Digit train number 
(e.g. 12402, 12589, 01493, 12952, etc.)
Train Name 
(e.g. Magadh, Gitanjali, Tamil Nadu, Mumbai Rajdhani, etc.)
From and To Station Codes | Names 
(e.g. Raipur to Bilaspur, AK to NJP, Bombay to New Delhi, etc.)
Intermediate Stations Name 
(e.g. Mumbai to Allahabad to Howrah etc.)

Select the Appropriate Train

To see the details you 
are interested in, select the specific train by clicking on the highlighted box from the search results.

Select the exact train

Select the exact train to get more details based on:
Start date from the originating station,
The previous and next stops.




Now Wait for Train Running Information

You can see the message before displaying train running information: “please wait while we fetch the information for the selected train...”

Current Train Running Status Details

TrainEnquiry.com will then fetch the following details about your train
Current Status of the Train 
(on-time, delayed, reached destination, etc)
Last location | updated time of the train
Next two stops and the Expected Time of Arrival (ETA)
Previous two stops and the departure time



So do check train running status online either on your smart-phone or computer with new version train running information and do share your views, write your comments, suggestions on, viewing train running information.