'Trainman Provides Upto 92 Per Cent Accurate Predictions About PNR Status'

Trainman is an online platform, founded in 2014, which provides a user-friendly interface to the complex Indian Railways rules and systems and can be accessed via mobile applications across Android, iOS and Windows devices. The platform assists Indian Railways travelers with various train related information like checking PNR status, seat availability, train schedule etc. The company claims to have 92% correct predictions of PNR status and recently introduced Virtual Reality Tour Guild to give a 3D experience to the travelers. To know more about the company’s vision and future plans Pahi Mehra had an interaction with Vineet Chirania, Director and CEO, Trainman.

- Pahi Mehra

What is the USP of Trainman and how is it different from other similar apps in the market?

Trainman started with the purpose of correcting confirmation chances of waiting list tickets, we are the pioneer in it, and Trainman is the first app which can tell whether you should book ticket which is waitlisted or not. And we are the number 1 player in this particular feature. And if you go to the Google Play store and search PNR status prediction, trainman is the first result over there, so I think Google also trusts us for this particular thing. So we can say that this is our core feature but apart from that, we have all the other features that a user need like checking seat availability, checking train live status, coach layout, platform number, and ticket booking.

How it started and what was the inspiration behind Trainman?