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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Windows Phone App : Chennai Train Travel

Chennai MRTS had extended till Velacherry for a while now. Number of travelers had increased since it is extended. Soon it will be extended till St. Thomas Mount and at that point it will connect more residential areas and Link with Beach Tambaram Sub Urban Line. Since more people are using MRTS and also to increase its patron further I recently published an APP in Windows Market Place. The app can be accessed here.

Once you start the app, it contacts the Southern Railway server to get the latest information. Once loaded, you can tap and select the station from and station to in the main screen.



Once the stations have been selected, click on the button to get the fare and route from the server again. This will initially show you the total fare and the route. The route markers are designated as follows:
> Green: Your starting station
> Yellow: Stations en route.
> Red: Your destination station














 So in the screenshot on the left, you start from Chintadripet, arrive at Tiruvallikeni. The cool part is that it works offline and you do not have to have data plan or internet connection.

 Feel free to try it out and do send feedback on the MarketPlace.The app will be extended to include lines including Chennai Metro.

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