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[cyberhippie]

E tickets from India Railways

Indian railways now has an e ticketing facility. Book your ticket, pay using Visa or Mastercard and simply print the ticket or ERS (Electronic Reservation slip) on your own computer.
Carry it with you along with your stated ID and you're on the train!!


IR accepts the following as valid ID

Voter Identity Card

Passport

PAN card

Driving License

Central/ state Govt issued Photo ID card.


This a limited service now been extended to most popular express trains!!!
At present only confirmed / RAC tickets can be booked through e-Reservation,

Below you'll find a list of the trains you can book via e ticketing as well as the cancellation rules from IR

For more info see here E-tickets

To book you'll have to register here Online Booking (tip : the online booking form demands a zip code and will only except a 6 digit Indian type pin code, make one up or copy from the net, it works no problem just a glitch in the booking form)

To find your trains you'll need this Indian Railways Online
Or this Trains At A Glance

This service is presently available on most popular express trains


E ticketing is now available on many trains, though I don't as yet have the published list!!

Cancellation of e-Tickets
e-Tickets can be cancelled on Internet at this website till Chart preparation of the train .Cancellations are not allowed at face to face Railway Counters. If the user wishes to cancel his e-Ticket, he can do so till the time of chart preparation for the train (which is normally 4 hours before the scheduled departure of the train from the train originating station). He can log on to www.irctc.co.in and go to "Booked Tickets" link and select the ticket to be cancelled and can initiate the cancellation by selecting the passengers to be cancelled. However if the Identity Card holder in the original ticket is selected for cancellation, all the passengers in the ticket would have be cancelled and a fresh reservation will have to be made, duly including the ID particulars of another passenger. Cancellation would be confirmed online and the refund would be credited back to the account used for booking as for normal Internet tickets. If there is any partial cancellation of ticket, please ensure that a fresh e-reservation slip (Electronic Reservation Slip) is printed separately as done for the original ticket. To take you step by step and familiarise you with the procedure for cancelling of e-tickets, please click HERE
For any claims on e-Tickets to be cancelled after the preparation of Reservation charts, the user has to send an email at the earliest possible time to etickets@irctc.co.in giving full details of the ticket and stating the claim, which would then be processed by IRCTC with the Railway administration offline and refunds as sanctioned by the Railway administration would be credited back to the user's account

Booking Via SMS

As well as this they now offer a service whereby if registered with IR's mobile reservation services, you can book tickets vis your mobile usins the texting utility. You will also need a bank account .
For more details see the link SMS train booking!

[V.SRINIVASA PRASAD]

Our Members may also log on to www.indianrailways.gov.in to know about the:
1) Status of RAC/Waitlisted Ticket
2) Availability of Berths by different Trains
3) Fare
4) Code of a Station
5) Schedule of a Train
6) Trains running between a source Destination
7) Train Number
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Those who are interested in using the Trains may practice - on & off -as to how to get the above information from the Web Site. In fact this site is more reliable than IRCTC. IRCTC may, however, be utilised for on-line booking and the E-Ticketing may be utilised for Printing the Journey Ticket on your Printer before the journey is commenced.
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The only problem with E-Ticketing is that: Tickets with Waitlist Status are NOT issued.
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The only problem with I-Ticketing is that: The I-Tickets cannot be cancelled on the Internet but they have to presented physically in the Reservation Counterfor cancellation but the Amount will be credited only to your Bank Account.
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Hence, our Foreigh Members should plan their Trips, if they want to make use of Indian Railways, in such a way that the Waitlisted Tickets are better avoided and they should make use of E-Ticketing because they need to be cancelled only on the Internet.

[cyberhippie]

Just to update this thread, you can now also book online E tickets for waiting listed berths.