We’re getting ready to launch online bookings for Indian Railways tickets in the next few days and are previewing the new service here on the Cleartrip Blog. In this post, we’ll take a look at the new site navigation and new trains search form.
We’ve added a “Trains” link to the site’s main navigation, making the train product much easier to find for newer users that are less familiar with our site. We’ve made a minor change to the trains search form by adding the ability to specify the type and number of passengers before you search.
The new search form supports searches for adults, children and senior citizens. For senior citizens, the number of male and female passengers must be specified separately as prices vary for male and female senior citizens.
The screenshot below provides a look at our search results, click the image for a full-screen preview.
Highlights for the search results include:
- Instant comparison of fares from multiple classes e.g. AC Two Tier (2A) and AC Three Tier (3A)
- Automated checking of general and tatkal availability with a single search
- Support for searching multiple stations in a city simultaneously instead of having to search one station at a time–very handy for larger cities with lots of stations
Up next, we’ll be previewing how to check seat availability and select trains from the search results.
For quite a lot of the routes, train tickets get sold out really fast.
So what I would like to know in one quick search is to find available tickets in different classes in one shot.
ie. search interface should take
Destination and arrival stations
No of persons
Classes Interested [ Ac 2 Tier, Ac 3 Tier, Sleeper etc].
That would be a killer deal.
At the time of trying to get the details on the trains, idoes it make a difference if I have 5 senior scitizens or 5 children or adults ? All that information can be collated from the passenger list once i give the details. Why put it upfront ?
Navneet–we ask for this information upfront because the prices are dependent upon the type of passenger i.e. a child ticket costs less than an adult ticket.