Indian Railways (Official website: www.indianrail.gov.in
Internet Booking site: www.irctc.co.in) is the state-owned railway
company of India, which owns and operates most of the country's rail
transport and infrastructure. Indian Railways has one of the
largest and busiest rail networks in the world, transporting over 17
million passengers and more than 2 million tonnes of freight daily.
It is the world's largest commercial or utility employer, with more
than 1.4 million employees. The Indian Railways has a train network
that is spread across the length and breadth of the country,
covering 6,909 stations over a total route length of more than
63,327 kilometres. Indian Railways owns over 200,000 wagons, 50,000
coaches and 8,000 locomotives of rolling stock. Indian Railways is
administered by the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India.
Today, Indian Railways offers diverse tourist routes, magnificent
hotels on wheels with five-star services and Indrail Pass, ideal for
extensive trouble-free tours across the country. Then hurry, don't
miss your train !
Indian Railways has three important websites:
www.indianrail.gov.in - Availability, Fare information and
PNR Status for Indian Railways. This site is often mistyped as
indianrailways.com, indianrail.com and Indianrailways.gov.in by
users.
www.irctc.co.in - IRCTC site, The official Indian Railways
Online Booking website, often misspelt as IRCTC.com, IRCT, IRTC,
IRCYC, IRCRC and ICTC.
www.trainenquiry.com - Trains Timetable and current running
information on current status of trains and general information
about all the trains operated by Indian Railways.
Important
Best way of checking Indian Railways PNR Status is to go to
www.indianrail.gov.in and best way of making internet bookings/ of
rail tickets is to go to www.irctc.co.in
Reservation Against Cancellation (RAC) means a
passenger does not have a reserved berth, but he has sitting
accommodation. Depepending on the number of waitlisted passengers,
the reservation may be promoted to a confirmed berth when one
becomes available due to last moment cancellations usually taking
place close to the journey date. RAC passengers can board the train
and can sit on the two side chairs. If a berth becomes available,
one RAC passenger will get the berth, and the other RAC passenger
can convert the two side chairs into a single berth.
Waiting List (WL) means a
passenger may not get any berth or sitting accommodation. If enough
number of confirmed or RAC passengers cancel their reservations,
he/she will be accommodated. The size of waiting queue for each
train may vary. Once the maximum number of wait listed tickets have
been issued, any further reservation requests are refused with
REGRET status. It is not possible to purchase a ticket with REGRET
status.
Enquiry PNR Status Through SMS
IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation)
allow Passenger to check there PNR status using mobile phone through
Sms . You can SMS your Pnr number to indian railways and then you
will get a response back with reservation details including train
information, train schedule,seat availability, train fare, train
status, train time table, etc. such information on a mobile phone
- SMS: PNR to 54959. For example PNR 3134567890
- SMS: PNR to 139
- SMS: PNR to 5676747
- SMS: IRPNR to 57886
Phone: Dial 139 for PNR enquiry, arrival departure of trains, fares,
accommodation and availability
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