Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Railway Reservation Form and Filling Deatils

One of my friend who was asking for Indian railway reservation form, was not able to go till railway station and bring one back. He was also asking for how he can get it online and then what should be fill in those blank areas. So I searched around internet and find the reservation form (attached with this post). Lets see it first. It looks like this.


What I advised him that he should first saw this on his hard disk and then print it out. This way it would look good.

So what should be filled in the empty field and what it means, one can read more here:

http://www.indiamike.com/india/indian-railways-f10/understanding-reservation-forms-t7485/

Though its an old tutorial but still makes many sense.

I also told him to check pnr status of his ticket after booking it from the counter to know exact seat availability information.



Saturday, May 26, 2012

Indian Railways PNR Status Check - Ways To Check It

Performing booking is really a mind-numbing process as well as a very important aspect when you’re traveling by train. Even if you're native person or a international tourist or you take a day to day journey. To avoid wasting great deal of time, your own important efforts and cash, you need to book your seats earlier of performing your vacation. It'll prevent unpleasant situations and unnecessary surprises. While if you want to be sure that your reserved ticket is confirmed, you should do pnr status enquiry before your current holiday.

You have reserved your Indian railway tickets 30 days back, and also at the period it wasn't verified, right now currently you would like to see whether it's affirmed or perhaps not, and you're not near your PC. Or else you have PC but can’t check it since connection to the internet is not active. As the popularity of examining PNR status is growing day by day, ways of examining it also being higher and became easy. You may have reached train station to consider your coach and till then the chart isn't ready, you now don’t have net and PC. Now how you can verify whether your seat is confirmed or otherwise which compartment you need to seat. In cases like this there's one alternative, which is called “mobile phones”. Following are handful of ways to look at the PNR status via mobile phone numbers and sms.  

What Is PNR?
PNR is a 10 number code you can type in to access all the details relating to your activity, including booking arrangements and confirmations. You can do this from a pc, a mobile phone or even by calling the shown number and becoming the details you need. Being up to date is important while on a trip, since it will surely simplify the process making things convenient and easy for you.

Check PNR Enquiry by Applications: 
Nowadays cell phones include several apps and one related app is “PNR Status and train info” which is freely available on Google Play (android market) to download. Just download this application and Check your PNR status of Indian railway. OR status of your IRCTC website booked tickets. You can also examine train name and train timings with this application. Seat Availability info. Which trains are running between which stations? Not only this ticket fare inquiry, Arrivals and departures at the station. It saves your PNR Status to be able to visualize it in future. Additionally there is substitute for send sms to 139 if your data network not working on your own Smartphone. Demand performing it, you may also contact 139 and abide by Interactive Voice Response from Indian railway to listen your PNR Status.

Check PNR Status with sending SMS:
To check on your PNR Status of reserved tickets from IRCTC website, IRCTC has introduced SMS service. It is really a three digit short code sms service. You just need to send PNR followed by your PNR Number printed on reservation ticket. There will be no space between PNR and PNR Status No. For example it'll appear to be this; “PNR8524594587” and send it to 139. Simply to remind you that you have pay to make use of this service. Another way to check on your PNR is to check with 10 digit mobile number. You need to simply send your pnr number to 9773300000. This will likely appear to be this “8524594587” to 9773300000.

One can possibly also open PNR Status Blog in his mobile cell phone browser and check PNR Status in really easy way. As well as besides this all if you’re really owning your PC on, internet enabled in it, then to check on your PNR Status on-line, point your browser to pnrstatus.org, or Indianrail.gov.in official railway website. In this websites you just need to enter your ten digit pnr number and press check PNR Status. You will come to know about your status immediately.