Traveling by Indian railways is a part of everyone’s life, you must have traveled 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 decide platform number for a train. So, if you want to try to do the platform number enquiry online, there are a couple of apps that would provide this info and one of them is Indian Train. But please note, these portals shows the platform number where a 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 the platform number from the information display monitor in the station or the railway enquiry counter. Earlier or even now where indicators were not available, a board showing platform number along with 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 the train number in the given box and click on the 'Get Platform' Button. After that, it will display the platform number of your train at a particular railway station.