IRCTC Official Website and Indian Railways

Do you guys know that the IRCTC official website has emerged as the largest and the fastest growing e-commerce portal not only in India but also in the Asia-Pacific region? Yes, all of you guys traveling by train often should be proud of this fact. No wonder with facilitation of buying of train tickets online at the IRCTC website, train travelers have sighed deep sighs of relief! No more waiting in long queues at Indian Railways counters to get train tickets! No matter where you are, all you need to do is log in to the IRCTC website and book your train tickets anytime between 00:30 Hrs to 23:30 Hrs.

Do you guys know that Indian Railways has 7,083 stations? And just imagine how many coaches it has? It is 60,000 coaches and 9,000 locomotives! And over 30 millions passengers travel by Indian Railways everyday! Distance in track covered is more than 64,215 kilometres. And it is broad gauge that is the predominant gauge used though metre gauges and narrow gauges are also used. What started in 1853 greatly expanded over the years. Broad gauge track covered by Indian railways is 96,851 km which accounts 86.8% of the entire track length encompassing all gauges.