Work online in part time from home. No expert skills required. Try now!http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/iclk?sa=l&ai=BVj49QEifSNjZDZmi7APh_pyfC6bNpoQBlsnmxQjCpvfHBwAQARgBIOiQkgI4AFDry4OZAWDl6uaDvA6gAfL_p_sDsgETbGFibm9sLmJsb2dzcG90LmNvbcgBAdoBSmh0dHA6Ly9sYWJub2wuYmxvZ3Nwb3QuY29tLzIwMDUvMTAvaW5kaWFuLXJhaWx3YXlzLXRpY2tldC1yZXNlcnZhdGlvbi5odG1sgAIBmALklA-pAsZliu97gFk-wAIBqAMB6APQAegDxAXoA-kG6AOaBfUDCAAAAIgEAZAEAZgEAA&num=1&adurl=http://www.googlecashcow.com&client=ca-pub-3152670624293746The Indian Railways (indianrail.gov.in) is the largest and busiest rail networks in the world. The Indian Railways Online Ticket booking website (irctc.co.in) is also the most popular internet destination in India for train pnr status enquiry and train route online timetable. No wonder, the IndianRailways Online Passenger Reservation website receives a few million hits per day for Trains Fare Reservation Availability Status Between Stations.Onlince Services offered by IndianRailways includes Trains/Fare/Reservation Availability Status, PNR : Passenger Current Status, Fare Enquiry For A Train, Train Schedule, Train Time-Table, Train Name Number, Telephone Numbers for EnquiriesInternet Reservation, Computerized Reservation Offices in India.Indian Railways operates 8,702 passenger trains and transports around five billion people annually. Indian Railways website is the only online information source for checking the ticket PNR status, train time-table schedule, seat availability enquiry, railway map and passenger fares. Yet, the Ministry of Railways have done little to improve the usability and accessibility of the railways official website.Pop-ups, frames, blinking text, tables with big borders, scrolling text - which are a big no-no in modern web design - can all be located on the Railways homepage. None of the images have an alternate text. The IRCTC homepage is jam-packed with third-party credit card advertisements that it might take a while just to locate the login form.Millions of Indians still connect to the internet using slow and expensive dial-up connections but Railways website pages are bulky because to content as well as heavy use of style tags. Can they please use CSS. In few cases, over 70% of the HTML code was commented which can easily be removed from the pages making them lighter.The Railways website doesn't follow a uniform color theme or font scheme. CRIS maintains two official websites (www.indianrailways.gov.in and www.indianrail.gov.in) - both seem to offer the same features. Indianrailways.gov.in sports a much better and user-friendly layout that indianrail.gov.in. Which one should I use ? The Online PNR Status Enquiry system is officially down for a few hours everyday. Why ? Do computers need rest ?Travelling in the The Palace on Wheels, The Royal Orient or The Fairy Queen give the real taste of India.Indian Railways offer a unique two days all inclusive package by combining thrill, romance, wildlife and steam heritage on the luxury train Fairy Queen. A two-saloon train makes a short journey from Delhi to Alwar. The Queen with the privileged ones aboard reaches the picturesque town of Alwar in Rajasthan the same day, from where the guests will be taken to Sariska Tiger Reserve for an overnight stay.The Palace on Wheels has 14 coaches named after former Rajput States. The train is completely self-sufficient, its public spaces include two restaurant coaches and a bar coach with an attached library. All coaches and corridors are fully carpeted. At the end of each coach is a separate lounge where passengers can relax when they wish to move out of their bed rooms. (Delhi- Jaipur- Chittaurgarh- Udaipur- Ranthambhor- Jaisalmer- Jodhpur- Bharatpur- Agra- Delhi in 7 Nights/ 8 Days)You may log on to IRCTC website http://www.irctc.co.in and enter your boarding and destination station codes, choose your journey date and class. Then choose the train you wish to travel. Enter the details of those who are travelling. As in the case of a physical purchase, a maximum of six names can be entered at once. Then you will get the availability status of your ticket.Indian Railways - www.indianrail.gov.in/ - The official site with information on trains, fares and availability.Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation - www.irctc.co.in/ - Offers online rail ticket booking, and checking of ticket reservation status. Includes train schedules, availability of tickets, and a travel planner.National Rail Museum - www.railmuseum.org - Covers a land area of over 10 acres, housing nine display galleries and a large open area laid out to simulate a Railway yard.Southern Railway - www.southernrailway.org/ - Covering most of the southern states of India.Indian Railways Rail Suggestions and Discussion Board - www.irsuggestions.org/ - Discussions on a variety of rail topics, complaints, suggestions and online polls.South Central Railway - www.scrailway.gov.in/ - Part of Indian Railways.Western Railway - www.westernrailwayindia.com/ - Official site with information about trains, online train status, reservation status and accommodation availability.Konkan Railway - www.konkanrailway.com - Connects Mumbai and Mangalore in western India.Indian Railways FAQ - www.irfca.org/faq/ - The history, technology, current services, and other aspects of trains and train travel in India and other parts of south Asia, and pointers to other resources.Central Railway - www.centralrailwayonline.com/ - Information about trains, routes, reservations, fare and news.Raildwar - www.raildwar.com/ - Extensive collection of links related to railways and railroads.Eastern Railway - www.easternrailway.gov.in/ - Kolkata based zonal railway. Runs a large number of suburban railway services, express and mail trains.West Central Railway - www.westcentralrailway.com/ - Information about trains, reservation and ticketing.Institute of Rail Transport - www.irt-india.com/ - Promote and foster the study of the science and art of rail transport and management.Train Running Information: Indian Railways - trainenquiry.com/ Online railway timetable, reservations and travel information.google_skip=google_adnum;google_ad_channel='4355338828';
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I think Indian railway should shut down their web sites (all), but specially www.irctc.co.in a web site where you can book your ticket.
This is the worst web site I ever came across. if you think that in place of booking ticket at railway reservation center and wait for hrs in a queue, lets book a ticket online to save all this time, then I will say you are wrong its better to book a ticket at reservation center than a web site
First of all this web takes long time to load, then again long time more than a 1-2 min to login, then you need to search your train, there it again takes time..., then you need to select a train and check the availability, if it available then say book ticket and then enter the name of passengers and also identity details of one passenger, then confirm that and then say book, then it will redirect you to payment page and again you need to select different payment gate way and then do the payment... and then take a print , big thing if you do not have a printer connected to your machine then ... ??? since there is no option to save the ticket. :( only print.
You must be thinking that above process must be taking not more that 5 min? yes you are right this should not take but since this is a India railway web site it take more time... like for every post back it take more than 1-2 min, so calculate the post backs and multiply it by 1.5 (average) its more than 30 min.
The most horrible thing I face in this is Session Expiry , I don't understand what are their session expiry policies, within a min or 2 the session get expire and you need to login again to web site and .... Start you process again from first step (login), means if you are in between the process of confirm the ticket and do the payment if your session get expire or timeout occurs for the post back event then...; you will get a nice Error message and ask you to go to home page where you need to login again and again start the entire cycle
Let me tell you in my last 2 years use of this web site I never able to book a ticket without getting any error and in less than 1/2 hr for a ticket.
Other things I you can notice that the looks are also not so good , see the image quality of the top banner its so bad...
One more important thing I forgot to mention, this is not a 24 hr service , after 11:00 PM you can not use this web site for booking
I do not understand where is problem is ? in technology ? server capacity ? or the system architecture? answer is NO.. then ?
why a big organization like Indian Railway which is own by the Government of India can't have a simple plain web site where one can book a ticket in 5 min, can search the train easily, can get accurate time table for trains ???
the Answer is YES they can...
but only problem is THEY DON'T WANT THAT...
However some unofficial websites like http://www.indiantrains.org/ etc.
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 passenger train also which is also not available in any website. This site will enable the users to search train route and compare fares of most of the trains in India.
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