I’m on the IRCTC website trying to book train tickets around Rajasthan/Delhi. To avoid doubt, for a foreign visitor booking the tickets overseas, what’s the best way to book the tickets?
Is it best to pick them up from Delhi station (which will be our 1st destination) or can we just print out e-tickets.
When I try and click the e-ticket option it comes up with a message saying “Only confirmed/RAC ticket booked. Ticket can be booked only up to the time of charting”.
If we did choose to pick the tickets up from Delhi station could we pick up 2 or 3 tickets for other routes around Rajasthan we would have booked?
I’m confused, any help would be appreciated.
Planned itinerary includes:-
Delhi, Jaisalmer, Johdpur, Udaipur, Agra, Delhi spread over 18 days in April.
Thanks
Where do you get the idea that you can pich the tickets up in Delhi?
As far as I'm aware, you can no longer pich the tickets up from the reservation office in Delhi.
You can purchase I-tickets and have them send to your Delhi hotel.
Or you can purchase E-tickets and print them at home.
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meaning that 'waitlisted' tickets can't be sold via E-ticket, (but they can via I-ticket)
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Charting in usually 4 hours before departure, or late at night for early morning departures.
My experience exactlty and "RAC" does not seem explained on the ticket or website, for me ...
If your ETicket printed out from the website says RAC and does not have a car/seat assigned then you must get that seat assignment "on the boards" as said after 4 hours before departure.
RAC means 'reserved against cancellation'
RAC gets you a seat on a train, not a berth.
Because there are normally loads of cancellations, an RAC ticket bought just a couple of days before the train journey will likely become a 'confirmed' ticket, getting you a berth, I've bought RAC tickets 6 hours before departure and got a berth.
I've had maybe 10 RAC tickets and all bar one got confirmed.
Click here for a detailed explanation about how RAC works, and what happens when you board a train with an RAC ticket.
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