Indian Railways have launched a new Online Train Enquiry System which would substitute the earlier website Trainenquiry.com. The New system can be accessed at http://enquiry.indianrail.gov.in/ntes/.
The new system is Faster, Easier to operate, but lacks in the Design part. A Captcha greets you whenever you make a visit to this website. Only when you clear the captcha you are allowed to enter the website.The Facility to visualize on a Map in missing in the new system.
New Online Train Enquiry System
It has been developed by Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS), the IT wing of Indian Railways,
The new interface for the website was made public for past one week as field trial to get users’ feedback.
Main features of the website provided under different Tabs on the Home page are as under:-
“Spot your trainâ€- This query offers information about a train like Train Schedule, current running status, expected time of arrival/expected time of departure (ETA/ETD) at queried station.Complete running of the selected train can be easily seen through this interface.
“Stationâ€- This query has been given to replicate the display boards at station. One can see, sitting at home the trains expected to arrive/depart at any given station in next 2/4/6/8 hours.Stations can be entered through code or name both. Option is also given to automatically refresh the screen every two minutes.
“Trains between Stations†– A very valuable query covering all trains defined on IR between any two stations. This complete information is presently not available on any other government website.
“Trains Cancelledâ€â€“ This query displays all trains cancelled on IR. The tab displays trains which are cancelled through entire route as well as cancelled partially and providing service on partial route.
“Rescheduled†and “Diverted†– These queries display all trains marked as rescheduled or diverted on IR. The respective tabs display trains rescheduled timings and diverted route (from – to) information.
Some general characteristics are that all train numbers in different pages have been given as hyperlinks to view the schedule and current running. Pages have been kept light weight to enhance the speed of the website. All the information is navigable from a single home page with minimum clicks. Mobile version of the site is also available through same URL.
The interface has been made bilingual with Hindi version is also available on the website.
As part of the IR/CRIS ongoing efforts to enhance the quality and availability of information to public, new features such as separate pages for special trains and major events would be made available subsequently.
The existing website interface running as beta version will be replaced with the new interface. All other interfaces namely Events (events.trainenquiry.com), Rail Radar (railradar.trainenquiry.com),Rail Radar Fog view (railradar.trainenquiry.com/fog), SpecialTrains(trainenquiry.com/liveupdates/SpecialTrains.aspx)
Mobile (mobile.trainenquiry.com) and (onthego.trainenquiry.com) will be redirected to the new interface and all the information will be available through the new web interfaces.