Railway Time Table - Helps You Plan Your Journey Properly

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Indian Railways operates a large number of trains daily, taking thousands of people to various places in India. There are daily travelers as well as others who travel occasionally. When you travel in trains, it is essential that you know the timings of the train so that you can book your ticket in the correct train. A railway time table provides you various details on trains like the train timings, schedules, arrival and departure time of the train at each station where it has a halt, source and destination stations and train numbers and train names. The train time table is displayed in a tabular form so that you can check it and get the details easily at a glance.

You get the train time table at the railway station or any of the shops in the form of a booklet. Since the railway timings and stoppages vary from time to time, every six months a new time table is printed. So if any change is made in between, it is entered only in the next edition. Hence, people nowadays do not rely much on the printed booklets. Instead, they get the railway timetable online, through mobile phones, or at call centers for the most accurate ...
... and recent data. The online portal is always updated promptly and gives you the timings in a matter of a few seconds. So if you have an internet connection, this is the best form of checking the railway time table.

The website of Indian Railways and IRCTC, and other travel and tourism websites allow you to check the train time table online. Here you can check the route and timings of the train, seat availability, prices of tickets, and book your ticket by paying through a debit or credit card.

Other than the online and printed form of the railway time table, you can also find the other versions of time table in the railway station. Every railway station has a time table chart showing the arrival and departure time of the trains in that station. In large stations, the time table chart is electronic, whereas in small stations it is written by hand.

By referring the time table you will come to know how long a train stops at a particular station. This will help you in deciding how much luggage you can carry. If the train halts only for a short time in the station, you should take little luggage or else you may not be able board the train with the entire luggage.

Nowadays the railway time table is found on the back page of many of the regional calendars. They contain the details of all the trains running in that particular region. They are usually written in the regional language, so that the people there can read and understand them easily.

You can check Indian railway time table online just before booking any ticket for your next family trip. If you are planning to move to another city and looking forward to use train this time, then don't forget to have a look on railway schedule to get a clear idea about availability of trains.