How Live Station Train Help At Night Travel Through a Train
Travelling at night is full of adventures. As you’re unaware of the facilities that you can avail from the counters, this is the time when you might shy away from traveling. On the other side, some passengers love to travel at night.
According to a survey, passengers feel that they will not be able to get clear and accurate information about the train running status. But it's not like that. That day has already passed when you had to depend on the announcements and inquiry counters.
Check Live Station Trains Online
Our Indian Railways has extended its services from counters to e-counters. It has launched all the features of counters of Inquiry and Ticketing, online. So now, stop worrying about the night and pack your bag for your upcoming night train journey. You can get the list of upcoming trains on your smartphone without queuing up in front of counters. To know the Live Station Train online, you can go through railways e-services.
With more than 20 million regular passengers, Indian Railways is the third biggest rail network in the world, after Russia and China. Its rail lines are about 63000 kilometers long that connect metropolitan cities to rural areas. It is operating with 600+ railway stations and about 10000+ trains regularly.
Indian Railways is also the largest employment hub in the world, as it has currently 1.5 million active staff. Such a large strength of employees helps railways to become the most demanded and easy mode of transportation. Its team works hard to launch new features and activities. Providing such facilities online is a risky work but making it popular is the toughest. With the increasing popularity of the internet and smartphone, people understand the online features and usage of Railway’s e-services.
The Live Station Train facility of Indian Railways shows the list of upcoming trains at your boarding station. It shows the live train arrival timings, so that you can plan your trip according to your train timing. It can be easily checked online rather than asking from the inquiry counter.
If you’re traveling for a night train journey and worried about the upcoming trains, then you can simply download RailMitra’s mobile app from Google Play Store and get the exact list of upcoming trains. Live station trains also help passengers to get the current running status of their upcoming train. It informs passengers about the delayed details of the trains with the expected and scheduled timing.
Passengers willing to know the upcoming train of their boarding station can track their train’s live running status from their smartphone. It shows the train departure status, last crossed and upcoming stations, running status i.e. on time or delayed, running days, expected arrival at your boarding station along with scheduled arrival timing, and so on.
These e- services are not restricted with time and location, so you can avail it from anywhere or anytime. If it takes a long time to show results, due to server error, then you can refresh your page and can check it again, it will definitely show the exact results. If you don’t have a smartphone, then you can send a message on 139 with a message text “TIME”. So you’ll get the list of trains for that specific route through message.
How to Avail Live Station from RailMitra?
- Download RailMitra mobile app or visit to its official website
- Tap on “Live Station Arrv/Dep”
- Enter your boarding & destination station and select the time interval.
- Click on “Check trains”
It will show the list of upcoming trains in a specified time duration. There are three options available in the time section, i.e. 2 hours, 4 hours, and 8 hours. 2, 4, and 8 hours shows the list of upcoming trains in the next 2, 4, and 8 hours.
There will also be a button available so that you can also know the details about any specific train by tapping on that train.
Live Train Arrival & Departure Status
To easily get details of the upcoming trains:
- If you have a smartphone with internet connectivity, then go to
RailMitra -> Live Station Arrv/Dep -> Boarding station -> destination station -> Time duration -> check Trains
- If you don’t have a smartphone, then,
Send a message “TIME” on 139
