Indian Railways is repainting select coaches on its train network. The Northern Railway – which caters to one of the zones served by Indian Railways – has painted seven different colour schemes on sleeper coaches, according to a statement. Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday visited the newly-coloured coaches at New Delhi Railway Station. Indian Railways has been taking steps Read More

The Government Railway Police or GRP personnel in Bihar’s Siwan district are banking on a “tantrik” or occultist to crack a case of theft, a police officer said on Wednesday. Instead of using high-tech gadgets and conducting a scientific investigation, the GRP has sought the help of a local tantrik called “Ghoda Baba” to solve the case. Read More

In the online recruitment drive involving 2.5 million candidates, Indian Railways is set to save paper sheets equivalent to 10 lakh trees. According to a senior Railways official, for the pen and paper based examination, recruitment boards would have required 7.5 crore paper sheets or the equivalent of 10 lakh trees. Now, the exam is Read More

Ten lakh trees have been spared the axe. Thanks to the Indian Railways for taking its recruitment process online. The move has saved at least 7.5 crore sheets of paper, or the equivalent of 10 lakh trees needed to make paper, a senior railway ministry officer said. Some 2.37 crore people had applied against 88,000 railway posts. Read More

Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat are less than nine months away from getting the country’s first two state-of-the-art “airport-like” railway stations. The two stations — Habibganj in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal and Gandhinagar in Gujarat — are part of the government’s ambitious one lakh crore rupee station redevelopment program to speed up modernisation of the Indian Railways. Read More

New Delhi: Buoyed by its success with senior citizens, the Indian Railways is set to extend its ‘Give it up’ scheme to include other concession holders to offset its nearly Rs. 33,000-crore subsidy burden in annual passenger fares. The decision was taken after figures showed that following the introduction of the scheme last year – by which senior Read More

The four stations of Central Railway’s Matheran Hill Railway in Maharashtra’s Raigad district have turned “green” with the installation of solar power and wind energy plants, an official said on Friday. Sunil Udasi, the Chief Public Relations Officer, Central Railway said in a statement that on the installation of Green Energy System, the generation capacity Read More

Thousands of people around Berlin’s central railway station were evacuated on Friday as bomb disposal experts began defusing an unexploded World War II explosive unearthed on a building site. Trains, trams and buses were halted or rerouted as the operation to dispose of the British 500-kilogramme (1,100-pound) bomb found more than 70 years after the Read More

“Do not risk your lives.” That was said by IRCTC or Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation to train passengers, warning them against unauthorised food suppliers aboard trains. IRCTC, in a post on microblogging site Twitter, has named 11 such unauthorised food suppliers. Railyatri, Khanagadi, Khanaonline, Travelzaika, Trainfood, Travelfood, Travelerfood, Food in train, Food on wheel, Railrasoi Read More

The CBI today filed a charge sheet against former railway minister Lalu Prasad and others in connection with alleged corruption in handing out a management contract for two IRCTC hotels to a private company, officials said. Former Bihar chief minister and Lalu Prasad Yadav’s wife Rabri Devi, and their son Tejashwi were also among the Read More

Want to know in detail about Indian Railways reservations? Do you love to travel and take a tour of the country via trains and simply prefer rail transportation over others? Checking out online information related to train schedules, train movement, seat availability and wishing to get confirmed reservations in the desired train? Well, if you Read More

Are you still spending enough time on station enquiry desk or super busy railway website? Give it all a break and try all new feature of pnrstatuslive. “Train fare enquiry” service exclusively designed for customer comforts. All you just have to do open  https://pnrstatuslive.com So, to get a summarized fare and timing list follow these Read More

Maybe you have to travel extensively between two stations, or you want to view the time table of trains between couple of stations that would be required for your tour. In such instances, modern day passengers have to use the Internet to search for train time table. But, what if you are from the old Read More

Indian Railways has been a mixed blessing for us Indians. There was a time when the railways timetable booklet was referred to as the ‘joke book’ of Rail ministry. Waiting at the station for hours for the train to come was a regular incident. And booking tickets was a matter of real drudgery. Long queues, Read More

 tatkal tickets are meant for last minute or immediate plans. Tatkal ticket booking opens at 10 a.m. for AC class and at 11 a.m. for non-AC class one day in advance from the actual date of starting point of the train. For example, for a train leaving on 7th from Bangalore Railway Station, railway tatkal Read More

PNR number is being used daily by many passengers across the world for obtaining the details of their travel. Thus, there is high search volume for Indian Railways PNR Status Enquiry every day and many people look for various convenient ways for getting the desired information. See https://pnrstatuslive.com/   There are many ways of getting the Read More

All of us have travelled with the Indian Railways at least once and been in many situations that arise before the departure. We wish to know the PNR Status of our ticket if it is in Waitlist or RAC, when would a Train arrive or about its Departure Enquiry and what not. We do know Read More

139-Rail Sampark”, the national enquiry for Indian Railways has been in operation for around 5 years now. The services on this number i.e. 139 handles enquiries pertaining to PNR Status, Current Train running position, Accommodation availability and Fare Enquiry. Apart from voice enquiry on IVRS, the above mentioned services are also available through SMS. Passenger Read More

IRCTC has introduced the latest initiative for checking the Railway ticket PNR status, train fair, seat availability, arrival or departure, train running status and train name/number/time using a single window information through universal number called 139-Rail Sampark. In other words, you may obtain information regarding the PNR status, train running status for both arrivals and Read More