About Etrain

Who runs it

Etrain is published and maintained by Sandeep, a software engineer and the person who builds and maintains Etrain. It is a personal project, not a company, and it is not affiliated with any railway operator, IRCTC or any government body. Nothing on this site sells tickets or takes payments.

Questions, corrections and takedown requests go to [email protected]. Replies usually take a day or two.

What the site does

• PNR status: confirmation, RAC or waitlist position, coach and berth, and chart status for a 10-digit PNR.
• Live running status: the train's last reported position, delay at each stop and expected arrival, for today, yesterday and tomorrow's runs.
• Timetables and trains between stations: halts, platforms, distances and running days.

Where the data comes from

• PNR status is fetched from the public PNR enquiry when you ask for it, and shown as received. We do not predict confirmation chances. Passenger names and payment details are never shown or stored.
• Live running status comes from the official train enquiry feed, which is built from station and control-office reports rather than continuous GPS. When that feed has not published an arrival estimate for the next stop, we project one from the current delay and label it “about”.
• Timetables are taken from the published railway schedules and stored on our side so pages load quickly. The schedule set was last refreshed in February 2026; individual trains are corrected as reports come in. A timetable can lag an official change by days, so confirm times for a journey you are about to make.

How we keep it accurate

• Guides and FAQ answers carry a “last reviewed” date and are checked against railway and IRCTC rules at least twice a year. This page was last reviewed on 28 October 2026.
• Train pages that have no schedule data return a 404 rather than an empty page.
• If you spot a wrong time, platform or rule, email the page link and what you saw; corrections are made in the data, not just the text.

What we do not do

• No bookings, cancellations or refunds. Those happen on IRCTC or at a reservation counter.
• No accounts and no sign-in. Recent trains, pinned trains and your station are kept in your own browser only.
• No guarantees. Live status and PNR data are as good as the railway systems they come from, and both can be late or briefly unavailable.