It looks like Rail Yatri's train tracking app Rail Radar is back, two months after it was shelved by the company. The new version however seems to be independent and hosted at railradar.railyatri.in, but still uses railways data. The interface has also changed to a more map-centric one and focuses more on providing incident related information, powered by Rail Yatri's recently launched National RailYatri alert service. It now offers a live tracker of relevant incidents and events like train cancellations, delays, change in train route, rush in trains, seat unavailability, accidents and others on a map. One can click on any of the incident alert to browse through more information and the duration of the incident. The company claims the information is provided by its research team, based on past and current data. One can also click on any of the trains plotted on the map to view the incidents (if any) in its route along with other information like the current and the next stops, train timetable and train stops. Rail Radar however notes that it does not provide the actual running status or the actual location of the train, rather these locations are plotted based on the regular scheduled timetable. These trains are color coded to depict the type of the train (Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duronto - dark blue; Garib Rath, SuperFast and Mail express - orange; Passenger trains - light blue; and Local trains - brick red) and the arrows point towards the direction of the train. Besides this, the site also allows users to search for specific trains…
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