Used by contractors since 1852. On 15th August 1854, another passenger train started between Howrah and Hooghly covering a distance of 24 miles. Thereafter on October 19th, 1875 a train started between Hathras Road and Mathura Cantonment. Even South India was taken into the purview of the railways after the train that started between Vysarapady and Wallajah Road on 1st July, 1856. Since then the country made impressive growth in the rail networks and with the passage of time became the largest railway network in the world, operating about 14,444 trains across twenty six states and three union territories. The Indian rail system uses three different gauges depending on the rail traffic and area of the tracks. The first one is the Broad Gauge that is used in areas with high traffic and in areas with less traffic meter gauge is used. Mountain ranges like Nilgiri Mountain Railway and Darjeeling Himalayan Railway resort to narrow gauge. This rail system is further divided into sixteen zones. The zones are as follows:
1. North
2. North East
3. North East Frontier
4. Eastern
5. South Eastern
6. South Central
7. Southern
8. Central
9. Western
10. South Western
11. North Western
12. West Cental
13. North Central
14. South East Central
15. East Coast
16. East Central
There are various special trains to cover the rail network of India. The most popular trains are Palace on Wheels, Nilgiri Mountain Railway, Samjhauta Express, Lifeline Express and many others. Railways also have some holiday specials exclusively running during summer holidays and other long Indian holidays. Indian Railways have also made a way through Internet. Various websites provide a plethora of information on Indian Rails, their fares, rules, history, online booking and much more. The most popular and applauded websites are:
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Indian Railways
www.indianrailways.gov.in
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Indian Railways Online Passenger Reservation Site Providing Availability etc.
www.indianrail.gov.in/index.html
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Mail/Express Train Names with Details
www.indianrail.gov.in/mail_express_trn_list.html
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Rajdhani Train Names with Details
www.indianrail.gov.in/rajdhani_trn_list.html
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Shatabdi Train Names with Details
www.indianrail.gov.in/shatabdi_trn_list.html
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IRCTC's Online Rail Reservation
www.irctc.co.in
www.indianrail.gov.in - gives detail about the Indian Railway System along with the rail fares, schedules and other information about Indian Railways.
www.irctc.co.in - is a government site for online reservation.
www.irctc.com - is a site for online reservation and also provides loads of information about Indian Railways.
www.konkanrailways.com - provides detailed information about the Indian Coastal network.
www.indianrailways.gov.in - provides plethora of information along with the history and policies of Indian Railway System.
www.irfca.org/faq/ - is a vast resource of information related to Indian Railways.
www.trainweb.org/indiarail/ - links to everything about Indian Railways.
http://www.trainenquiry.com/ - is a site established by Centre for Railway Information System (CRIS) that provides travel information, online timetable, reservation and running status of the train.
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http://www.indiantrains.org/
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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