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6. Realtime spotting of trains<\/span> to get arrival and departure status for any station
7. Booking tickets through contact details of tickets agents across cities<\/p>\nSince I may not be able to use this search tool right away.. can any of the readers please look up the functionality and comment on its user friendliness and accuracy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india"],"yoast_head":"\n
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