Indian Railway – the lifeline of Indian tourism!

Indian railways is the one of the biggest railway network in the world and well known for its railway reservation, online reservation and ticket booking system. Indian railways provides you the best services including the online reservation and online ticketing. The first India railway on Indian sub-continent ran over a stretch of 21 miles from Bombay to Thane. Indian Railways ways runs around 11,000 trains everyday, of which 7,000 are passenger trains and Indian railways covers track of 108,706 kilometers in the country. Indian railways is the best medium of transportation for passengers including tourists and the Indian railways is connected with all the parts of the nation.

Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation with the assistance of Centre for Railway Information Systems has launched online reservation, on-line ticketing, online ticket booking facilities, that can be accessed through website irctc.co.in. Now online reservation is very simple and easy way to get railways tickets without standing in queues for long hours. Just log into the website and book online train ticket from the website and book your tickets. Computerized reservation facilities were added at 245 new locations. At present in India the online reservation, online booking facilities are available at 758 locations in the country covering about 96 per cent of the total workload of passenger reservation. Moreover you can know your PNR status of your booked train tickets from the same site. Computerized Reservation related enquiries about accommodation availability, passenger status, train schedule, train between pair of stations etc. have been made web enabled.

The information regarding train ticket, online ticket booking of Indian railways can be obtained from the website. Indian railway has been providing very good tourists packages for the tourists in order to boost the tourism sector. Darjeeling Himalayan Railways has attained the World Heritage Status from UNESCO and Fairy Queen, the oldest functioning steam engine in the world, won Guinness Book of World Records and also got Heritage Award at the International Tourist Bureau, Berlin in March, 2000. Indian railway is bliss for the Indian tourism sector.