Book an Indian Railway Ticket for Less Important Stations
This article gives overview of checking availability of trains for the station which are not important. This will cover almost all the stations of Indian railways.
Steps
- Log on to Indian railways official website "http://www.indianrail.gov.in/".
- Click on "Train/fare Accommodation" icon on the top row.
- Then the page showing "Trains/Fare/Reservation Availability Status" will open where you will be asked for Source & destination station name along with class & journey date.
- Give the required details and select "All Class" from dropdown menu of class and also the journey date.
- Click on "Get It" button, which will open "Trains Between A Source Destination Pair" page with options like source & destination station name. Then select the required station from the drop down list.
- again confirm the journey date and click on "Get It" button.
- Now you can see the list of trains which runs between the pair of station along with its train number, name, timings, days of operation and classes.
- Select the train and class and click on any of the option like, "Get Availability", "Get Fare", and "Get Schedule".
- You will get the required details.
Tips
- Online reservation can be done by using Internet reservation option on Home page.
- For that purpose you need to have account with IRCTC, which is free.
- Debit as well as credit card along with cash cards can be used for online reservation
- New payment options have been introduced by IRCTC for online reservation. This includes netbanking, IMPS.
