Indian Railways - Train Tickets Reservation

Indian railway is one of the largest rail network in the world and perhaps the largest employer in the country. It runs a large number of trains that cover the entire length and breadth of the country. Indian railway sells millions of train tickets every day. These train tickets are either sold online or through the thousands of ticket booking counters across the country.

It is very easy to book a train ticket these days. There are various options through which a person can book a ticket. With the reach of the Internet, tickets can be booked in less than a minute by sitting at the comforts of one’s home or in a cyber café. Such is the ease of booking that one can book a train ticket on mobile phone as well. With the growing number of trains and increasing number of people who prefer train travel, it is only convenient that there are more avenues to reserve a train ticket.

The situation was quite different a decade ago, when most rail tickets were booked through various booking counters across the country. One had to stand in long queues and wait for long hours to be able to finally get a confirmed ticket. At times, the queues are too long that by the time one finally reaches the counter, either it is lunch time or one can get only a waitlisted ticket. Confirmed tickets were a luxury. At that time there were hardly other methods of getting a confirmed train tickets. IRCTC website was there, but not many people were using it because most of the people didn’t have credit cards – a prerequisite – to book a rail ticket online. Moreover, the website was slow and hardly user friendly.

Things have changed now and that too for a good. Today, there are various websites that offer the convenience of easy rail booking. There is MakeMyTrip.com and many others that offer rail tickets booking online. Tickets booked online or through a website can be printed and taken along on a train journey. These tickets are equal to one gets at the rail booking counters. In fact, there is no danger of these tickets getting lost as one may go to cyber café and take a new print out of the same ticket.

Now you don’t have to worry about forgetting your train ticket at home or losing it on your way to the railway station. You can simply print another.