Train Info Guide

iRethink’s new app Train Info Guide is an advanced information guide with comprehensive feature set, designed to empower an individual to get whatever information is required about Indian Railways with just one touch!

Train Info Guide is built on a robust platform to serve millions of users, owing to the large population that uses the Indian Railways, including foreign tourists. A user-friendly, intuitive user experience engages the user to the maximum level, providing important information about each and every train and route in the country.

Train Info Guide also aims to take away the pain of the traveller and reduce the burden of Railway management staff by disseminating information on the mobile phone, which otherwise would require long, boring IVR phone calls or turning on the computer and searching the information through the use of internet.

How is this app unique ?

Train Info Guide enables the user to access the comprehensive directory information of Indian Railways with simple selection of visual illustrations.

Some of the distinctive advantages this app provides, include;
• Provides Real-time data, as updated by Indian Railways
• Accuracy of data, as provided by Indian Railways
• Simple, intuitive User experience that can be used by anyone, be it a child, a youth, an adult or a senior citizen
• Comprehensive info disseminated based on user selection - get what you need in one touch!
• Instant response mechanism, enable data pull within seconds
• One app for all phones - Works with Android, Apple and Windows phones
• Speedup your search through unique filter within the feature; be it, time-wise, location-wise, station-wise

Search

Train Info Guide is based on one simple feature ‘search’. All that a user has to do it search for train based on ‘From location’ to ‘destination’. The search response will be within seconds listing all the trains and their respective schedules for that particular route / search request.
An interesting utility is the ‘Recently searched’ wherein the recent searches are saved in the chronological order, which is an unlimited listing.
In addition, one can save favourite searches, which will be listed in the ‘Favourites’
The search result display is concise, making it easy for the user to skim through the results within seconds.

Fare

Train Info Guide app provides train fares for all the trains listed as per the Indian Railways official fare chart.
A user can get extract the tariff about a particular train using this feature with just two inputs, train name / number and class of travel. As per the Indian Railway guidelines, the fare will vary from train to train, and also based on class of travel, even though the route is same.
The fare could also change based on the day or travel, which is subjected to the Indian Railways tariff chart.

Route

An essential feature intrinsic to the Train Info Guide is the Route tracking feature of immense value for all travellers / family of travellers to identify the route with respect to a specific train, the stops at different stations, duration of stop at each station, and of course the most viewed time-to-destination on a specific route.

Live status

Train Info Guide provides you the facility to track trains and get LIVE UPDATES of a specific train, including LIVE DATE of the current location of the train, train delay, if any, and also the distance covered by a specific train till now.

PNR Status
This will be one of the most used features in the app is the ‘PNR Status Finder’, which provides the info on the status of the reservation with respect to a specific PNR. In addition, the feature also lists the ‘Recently searched’ - PNR status queried so that one doesn’t have to type the PNR again to query the status of booking.

Other important features are Diverted Trains ,Cancelled Trains , Trains at Station , Coaches, Seat Availability , Rescheduled Trains