Traveling by Indian railways is a part of everyone’s life, you must have travelled by train at some time in your life, and some people have their morning and evening hours on the train. Whenever you travel by train, it must have come to mind that how Indian railways decides platform number for a train. So, if you want try to do the platform number enquiry online, there are couple of apps that would provide this info and one of them is IndianTrain. But please note, these portals shows the platform number where particular train generally arrives.
Sometimes, the platform numbers are changed in the last minutes of train arrival because of various reasons which might not get reflected in these portals. So I would request to always confirm platform number from the information display monitor in the station or the railway enquiry counter. Earlier or even now where indicators are not available, a board showing coach position written with chalk-pencil will help to find out, which is usually in front of the station masters cabin. Lastly you can ask railway staff like TC, or coolie, or even to porters or even canteen staff.
How to do platform number enquiry online?
To know the Platform number of a particular train arriving/Departing from an originating/Intermediate station you need to go to the Train Platform Locator Enquiry page. Once reached there, enter train number in given box and click on 'Get Platform' Button. After that it will display platform number of your train at particular station.
