Considering how the overloaded world's biggest employer - "Indian Railways" handles the online information and reservation of railway tickets we have shared tricks to book tatkal tickets fast and ways to search Indian Railways using alternative portals.

It seems IRCTC is taking steps to enhance the overall ticketing experience for the end-user, the very first sign of this was evident when they emailed the "Jago Yatri Jago" initiative to educate the consumer by sending them the informational email as below containing some very useful tips to help the consumers.

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Indian Railways is one of the largest train networks in the world, with more than 1.6 million employees it is also the world's largest commercial employer, transporting seventeen million passengers and more than two million tonnes of freight daily this is surely one of the busiest rail networks in world. Indian Railways provides a simple and efficient online train reservation and information system through its IRCTC portal for its services.

While the official IRCTC portal provides all the information and services you need, it still lacks good presentation and ease of use, Today I will be sharing two new services allowing fast and efficient inquiry service for Indian Railways, The search services retrieves data from Indian Rail servers and display them in a much better way allowing you to easily find seat availability and fares.

The first service "Rediff Trains FareSearch" comes from Rediff the leading Indian online portal, the search offers nice ajax powered search suggestions and easy to use navigation with fast information retrieval.