Indian Railway in collaboration with Google is now providing a 10 digit mobile number. Just SMS your PNR number on this mobile number and instantaneously you will get your ticket's current status along with all other journey related details. The number is 9773300000. No need to prefix 0 or +91. Best of all, you don't pay a premium charge for any of this, just the price of a standard SMS. For more details: http://www.google.co.in/mobile/default/sms/#
Read more...Now for booking the train ticket.. its coming very easy and in only one click of mouse, you can get all the train schedules and ticket availability details for the next 15 days.
If you have time, please check this link below.
According to me, we should book the train tickets from www.irctc.co.in. But before the booking, we can get the available trains’ idea from the below link.
http://www.cleartrip.com/trains/calendar
I have been booking ticket through this for a long time , but tatkal experience is very bad you have to be at your system sharp by 8:00 am and 5 days before day of depature.
there payment system is very bad, can't tell there system is bad, but because of the load , In matter of 20 mins I observed more than 4000 transaction. The ticket that I had to book was gone.
