Checking Indian Railways Seat Availability Is Never a Hectic Job
Indian Railways offers the cheapest mode of transportation. Due to this reason, there are considerably a large number of people who depends on this transport system, so it is necessary to check the Indian Railways seat availability when one plans a trip. Train tickets can be reserved from any of the railway ticket counters in person, through travel agents, or through the most popular and convenient system using the Internet reservation system.
The official web portal of the railway enables you to check the seat availability on any trains and also provides all the information that you require. It is necessary to check the accommodation availability on trains prior to the booking of tickets.
To check the seat availability online, you need to access the website and enter the train number, source and destination station codes, the class and date of travel. The website in turn gives information regarding the available seats on that day, the next 6 days and also previous days as per your request. The notations that appear are ‘Available’, which means you can expect a confirmed seat for your journey, ‘WL’ means waiting list with which you cannot board the reserved compartments but can travel in the general coach and ‘RAC’ means Reservation against Cancellation in which you are allotted only a seat in the reserved coaches; the sleeping berth will be allotted according to the availability.
Besides the online booking facility, one can access the details of trains and the Indian Railways seat availability using GPRS activated mobile phones or SMS service.