Welcome to Railways Reservation
Railways Reservation
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Looking for Railways Reservation? Select online railways reservation or choose your nearby counters in city, locality, village to book your tickets instantly. You can also get here details of websites offering online railways reservation and can easily compare cost of tickets between various travel agencies. Find here reservation timings for booking your tickets on counters and booking through IRCTC.
Indian Railways: A Brief Overview
- Indian Railways is a state owned entity held by Government of India which controls rail transport throughout the length and breadth of the country and encompasses all the major destinations across India.
- Ministry of Railways is a subsidiary of Government of India which administers all the operations and functioning of the railways including railway reservation, enquiry, online railways reservation and cancellation of tickets.
- It is the fourth largest railway network of the world with a wide coverage of 64,215 km. Besides, it acts as lifeline of the country carrying approx. 25 million travelers and 2.5 millions of shipment each day.
Indian Railways reservation:
Passengers can book their tickets through railways reservation facility of IRCTC, reservation counters, OTA or travel agents, to travel across various destinations countrywide.
- For railway reservation and booking tickets, you can access any of the two modes-
- Online Railways Reservation
- Railways Reservation through reservation counters or with help of travel agents.
You require to choose many options before final reservation. These may include bearth, seat, class of travel, quota, concession, Tatkal, number of passengers, onwards journey, returning ticket, cancellation, confirmation of waiting and RAC tickets etc.
- Indian railways reservation and booking for berths/seats is categorized into different classes.
- These classes for railway reservation include-
- First class AC (1A)
- AC- two tier (2A)
- AC three tier (3A)
- AC three tier (economy class) (3E)
- AC chair car
- Executive class chair car
- Sleeper class
- Seater class
- Unreserved/general class
Apart from reservation counters, you can choose online railways reservation.
Online railways reservation
- Passengers can book their tickets online through online railways reservation services offered by Indian railways reservation system IRCTC, and other online travel portals like Make My Trip.com, Cleartrip.com, Yatra.com, Via.com, Ezeego1.co.in, Ixigo.com etc. This list is not exaustive, you can find several other online sites to book your train, flight, bus or cruise tickets with many other packages for holidays, honeymoon etc.
- For online railways reservation passengers can log into official website of Indian Railways - Indianrailways.gov.in and check for availability of seats for railway reservation and booking tickets.
- Indian railways reservation system also offers booking tickets through IRCTC, which is also a government of India enterprise.
- All you are required to do is maintain an account with IRCTC to avail railways reservation services and instant booking facilities in case of online booking.
Railway reservation and enquiry
- To enquire about PNR status, seat availability at major stations, fare, train schedule and train running between different stations you can visit the website of Indian Railways.
- Other important information pertaining to train codes, train numbers, train running information and train type services can also be availed through indian railways reservation website- indianrail.gov.in
Railways Reservation related links
Here are more details that may be helpful for you.
IRCTC-Railways Reservation
- IRCTC offers railway reservation irctc to its customers for booking instant tickets as well as availing latest PNR updates and enquiry about train schedule. Click here for more . . .
Agents-Railways Reservation
- Different Railways reservation agents and related Railways reservation agents charges are incorporated here in Railways reservation agents list to facilate railways reservation. Click here for more . . .
OTA-Railways Reservation
- "OTA" defined as "Online Travel agencies". Book your tickets through any of the Railways reservation online travel agencies (OTA) to have a fantastic trip in India. For online booking through Railways reservation OTA, you need to have following things: Click here for more . . .
Websites-Railways Reservation
- Apart from Railways reservation official website there is another website Railways reservation website IRCTC to provide you catering and tourism services. More Websites of Railways reservation to facilate booking are here. Click here for more . . .
