Now Indian Railway has started its new Train Enquiry site that is http://enquiry.indianrail.gov.in..This website is pretty much faster than existing website www.trainenquiry.com with  addition of new facilities like Cancelled trains on the new site, re - scheduled trains diverted trains from being conveyed. Officials say CRIS(Centre for Railway Information Systems)

is currently running a trial of this site. In the coming days it will be on the improve.I don't understand why government is investing so much on multiple site when already there is existing train enquiry system is there. Recently Govt. has closed much await project of Satellite Imaging for Rail Navigation (SIMRAN) which can be very much effective

The biggest USP of this website is that passengers get details. To know the status of the train running on Route option of putting the name or number. User can enter the source and destination and get the list of train and on click of the train it will give status of Train. Particular Train information is also displayed by entering Train name of Train Number

The second option is Station. Name of Station type All trains arrive at the station within two hours will be displayed. If you wish to travel in the particular  train, click on that train running status of the train will also be available. The third option is to train between stations, with which this information can be obtained so that train service between the two stations are in 24 hours. Re - schedule and diverted trains running from Route options are given for information.

Apart from  express and superfast trains this site also tell information about  passengers Trains, which inculde commuters who travel by shuttle trains . It will also tell you status of the shuttle trains. It will tell you number of coaches in shuttle so that the passenger can stand on the platform according to their coach position. This particular information is not available on any existing website. 

Indian Railways has came with every attractive idea of Inquiry system based on USSD on mobile.Now user need not to remember all the SMS keywords for various queries like PNR, seat availability ,fare, arrival departure, spotting a train location etc.But this service is currently available with limited Mobile operator like Reliance, Uninor, Docomo and Vodafone. I have tested on Airtel this is not avlabile right now may be they might extend there service but don't worry here is few keyword SMS format that you can use to send SMS to 139 to get information if your operator doesn't support *139#(USSD mehtod).


1.Ticket status Enquiry:

SMS "PNR"
eg: PNR 4341568666

2. Train Arrival/Departure Enquiry:

SMS “AD”
eg: AD 12012 011

3.  Accommodation availability:

SMS “SEAT***
eg: SEAT 12561 010712 0542 0571 SL G

4. Fare enquiry

SMS “FARE< DOJ**ddmmyy>***
eg: FARE 12561 230712 0542 0571 SL G

5. Time table:

SMS "TIME"
eg: TIME 12561

6. Spot/ Locate train:

SMS “SPOTor LOCATE
eg: SPOT 12561 or LOCATE 12561

Today I came across Indian Railways new Train enquiry website with different new user friendly feature. Currently this website is under BETA testing.The website will be launched in coming next week. The look and feel of site is very simple .When you browse the site you will feel like your are visiting a search engine website.
TrainEnquiry.com new web look is available here.

CRIS, the IT wing of Indian Railways, is beta testing an improved and clutter-free version of the Train Enquiry website that is far more useful than the existing one. The new website will not only provide the running status of trains but will also help you track the exact location of trains across the country.
This website is having unique feature you need not to remember long train name or train number,just you can enter source and destination you will get the corresponding trains list and you can select the train to get the update of running train. This website primary focused on Train enquiry as of now.

If we look from developer prospective this website has used AJAX.This website is as of now is not mobile friendly,but hope they will come out with some solutions.
Once you spot your train in the search results, just click on the train you will get detail of departure time of previous two station.It will also predict how far are next two station and its expected time to reach there.

Small pictorial tutorial is also available on website here.