Book IRCTC Train Tickets Online at Yatra.com

Yatra offers all facilities for train reservations including IRCTC login on its site, which means besides booking the ticket online, you can search for trains and their routes, train schedules, check for seat availability and train fares. You can also get your PNR status, view your tickets, print or cancel tickets on the Yatra website. Along with online train reservations, the IRCTC Tatkal service is also available on the Yatra platform.

Yatra offers a dedicated phone line and email id to handle customer queries, so customers can reach out to a Yatra executive in case of any booking issues or related queries.

Train reservation is available on Android, giving customers further ease of use. Yatra with its high-end technology services and the Yatra app, enables a seamless train booking experience for its customers. Besides payments on Yatra are secured and hassle free. It is no wonder more and more people are logging on to Yatra to book their train tickets.

IRCTC translating into Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation is an offshoot of the Indian Railway, a platform where you can predominantly book your train tickets online aside from ordering your meals, plan your holidays, and book tourism packages.

This subsidiary website of the Indian Railways churns out about 6 lakh bookings a day making it the second busiest website in the world. Not to mention, with a punchline like 'lifeline of the nation', you can't expect anything lesser. It all started with IRCTC opening up to online ticketing, cutting down the dependency on agents, middle-men, or the hassle of queuing up at a railway counter, and booking a quick ticket. With the advent of IRCTC, users have the luxury of time to browse trains of their liking, decide upon their budget, study the arrival and departure stations, and accordingly proceed with the booking. With the aid of an IRCTC login, users from across the country tap into Indian Railways wide network and browse for train availability, trains running between stations, subsequently going ahead to make an IRCTC online ticket booking.

IRCTC Train Booking

You can now book your train tickets on Yatra.com which has tied up with IRCTC to ensure a quick and easy railway booking. The platform makes it easy for you to complete the loop after you have booked your stay at a particular destination. Add to it, Yatra's expansive trains search console that makes zeroing on a train to your preferred destination a breeze. With elaborate filters to help you narrow down your train search, you end up saving a lot of time in making your IRCTC train booking.

How to make an IRCTC online booking with Yatra.com

• To make an IRCTC booking, you need to click on Trains from the search menu.
• Further on you need to enter your departure and arrival station, your date of departure and click 'search trains'.
• The subsequent page will give you the choice of trains along with their departure and arrival timings and the duration of the journey. It also demarcates the various classes available on each train.
• The left hand panel comprising multiple filters is to refine your search further. It lets you choose a station that is most convenient to you from the departure city. The same goes with the arrival city. You also have the option to modulate your departure and arrival timings.
• Once you have applied the respective filters you shall get a search result basis that.
• From the list of trains, select the one you prefer and choose the class whether 1A, 2A, 3A or SL (AC First Tier, AC Second Tier, AC Third Tier and Sleeper Class).
• On selecting a particular train class, you get a table that shows the dates in a week for which this class is available. Choose the one that suits you the most and click 'book now'.
• The subsequent window will give you the train number, train name, departure and arrival information. Simply click on 'continue'.
• Further on, you need to log in with your IRCTC user id and say 'submit'. In case you do not have an IRCTC account, you can create one. Or for that matter if you have forgotten your IRCTC password, you are given the option to retrieve it.
• Fill up the passenger details, need for a travel insurance among other information before clicking on 'continue'.
• In the following page you can review your itinerary before proceeding to make your booking by entering your card details.
• Your confirmed train ticket will be emailed to your registered id.

IRCTC Tatkal Booking Scheme

For those wanting to make their IRCTC train ticket booking on a short notice can opt for the Indian Railways Tatkal scheme under which they can make a booking, both online and offline (at the designate railway counter), a day ahead of the date of travel. The IRCTC ticket booking window opens at 10am one day before the journey for the air-conditioned coaches, and for booking a sleeper coach it is 11am.

IRCTC Live Train Status

The Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) website gives you the option to track your train in real time. The National Train Enquiry System page has a tab called 'spot your train' where you can carry out a search after entering your train name or number. And you will get all information on the distance covered by the train so far, the arrival and departure time at prominent stoppage stations, and an estimated arrival time at your desired destination.

IRCTC Waiting List Ticket

This means you have been issued a ticket on a train that is already running to capacity. But as and when passengers with confirmed tickets cancel their bookings your rank on the wait list keeps improving, consequently making it possible for you to get a confirmed ticket.

There is no guarantee whether or not a wait list IRCTC train ticket will get confirmed. It solely depends on the number cancellations that take place against confirmed tickets, and how that impacts your rank on the wait list. If it makes a significant difference to graduate you into the RAC list (with no confirmed or reserved berth) when the train's chart is prepared, you will at least be able to board the train. Of course you can SMS 139 to the Indian Railways from time to time to check the position of your wait listed ticket. However, on a unconfirmed wait list ticket at the time of preparing chart you can seek a full refund.

IRCTC UTS

IRCTC UTS stands for Unreserved Ticketing System that lets passengers of the Indian Railways buy unreserved tickets through the UTS mobile app. This is best suited for daily commuters and commuters on a short notice. The purpose of the mobile application is to eliminate the need to queue up at a counter to purchase unreserved tickets and make the process wholly digital. So all you need to do is download the Unreserved Ticketing System app and book a paperless ticket between two stations. Not only does it help with booking an unreserved paper ticket, it also lets you collect one at any of the automatic ticket vending machines anywhere in the country. If you happen to lose internet connectivity while booking such a ticket, the app lets you access the ticket even on an offline mode. You can make your payment towards the ticket through the Indian Railway provided R-Wallet (Railway Wallet) so that the entire transaction is completed digitally. These unreserved tickets can be booked on a bunch of suburban lines as well as a few long-distance routes. For instance, you can use your unreserved ticket at stations in Chennai, Secunderabad, Kolkata, Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi.

Once you have downloaded the app, you need to register yourself, post which your R-Wallet is automatically created. You can now buy your unreserved ticket using this wallet and even recharge it as well by heading to the UTS mobile website. Additionally, the wallet can be recharged at any railway booking counter provided you do it in multiples of 100. Not to mention, you cannot recharge beyond INR 5000. Presently, you can buy platform tickets as well as journey and season tickets using this app. You can book your unreserved ticket only 15 metres away from the station. For journey tickets, the radius is 5 km from the starting station. While for platform tickets, the distance is 2 km from the departure station. However, these restrictions don't apply on the booking of season tickets. Of course, there is no provision of booking an advance ticket as the whole idea is to enable you to make your booking on the current journey date.

Your unreserved ticket is further sent to the app and you can use the 'show ticket' option to display the ticket at the time of checking. These tickets are not subject to cancellation and you need to commence your journey within an hour after the booking.

IRCTC FTR

IRCTC FTR has simplified the online booking of railway coaches for special occasions such as marriage party or group tour through a Full Tariff Rate. As per Indian Railways, you can now book special trains, coaches and saloons on a Full Tariff Rate or FTR, which means they can be booked through a single window booking system on the IRCTC website.

You could be an individual, a party, the government or an agency and you have the provision to book trains or coaches or saloons through the FTR route on IRCTC. Here IRCTC will make the booking online on behalf of an individual or group. IRCTC also levies a facilitation charge of 5% of your total fare for booking these special trains or coaches. Indian Railway will prioritise the booking of these special coaches and saloons on FTR over reserving extra coaches in order to clear the passengers on a wait list. Make sure you do the registration of a special train at least one month ahead and not more than six months of your date of journey. In case you are making a registration for a duration shorter than one month, you would then require a special permission from the CPTM of the zonal railways. The security deposit for such a booking is INR 50,000 per coach, and in case of special trains, you will be charged for a minimum of 18 coaches. Not to mention, the whole transaction needs to be carried out only digitally.

Presently, FTR booking is allowed for journeys kicking off from the stations of the Western Railway Zone alone. You can complete the registration process on the IRCTC website or at the UTS counter of the journey starting station. At the time of booking, the individual or the party needs to provide the booking type, the route and details of coaches. Post registration you are provided with a reference number and a registration amount. You need to make the payment against the reference number and this will generate your FTR number. Indian Railways needs to receive the said payment within six days of making the registration.

In case you wish to cancel your FTR booking or the railways decides to revoke your booking, the refund shall be processed through a manual procedure involving the Chief Commercial Manager. A party can book a maximum of 10 coaches through FTR in a single train on a single tour. You can, however, book a maximum of 24 coaches of an FTR train including 2 SLR (Seating-cum-Luggage Rake) coaches. The registration sum for a coach for a period of one week is INR 50,000. If your journey extends any beyond seven days, you need to pay an additional INR 10,000 per day, per coach.

An offshoot of IRCTC Next Generation, the IRCTC tourism arm enables you to book special train-based packages, air travel, theme-based holidays, nature and sightseeing tours, and of course, its high-point, pilgrimage tours to all the key places of religious interest in the country. The site is known for its runaway hit programmes like the Bharat Darshan Special Tourist Train, also called, Ramayana Yatra. You can even view this detailed itinerary, the choice of trains, the inclusions in the package such as hotel stay and finalise your dates depending on the IRCTC availability.

• The capacity of IRCTC Next Generation site is touted to be 7200 tickets every minute as opposed to the former 2000 ticket per minute.
• IRCTC is perhaps Asia's greatest e-commerce site, clocking up a staggering 4 lakh bookings a day, leaving a certain Flipkart or Amazon far behind.
• IRCTC was the most searched term on Google India in 2014.

IRCTC is your treasure trove for everything trains, and now holidays, and it makes perfect sense to register yourself, and become its active user.