Railway Ticket Booking and IRCTC Seat Availability
A railway ticket booking is pretty easy now through the different online and offline modes of ticket booking being facilitated by the Indian Railways. One thing to be remembered is that Indian Railways is the favorite choice of a large number of passengers in the country, so if you are planning for an outstation journey, it is not easy to get a ticket. You have to do the ticket booking well in advance to make sure that you do not have any last-minute chaos. You can do the irctc seat availability check as well as booking through online from your home or office.
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In order to do the online reservation availability check, you need to first lot on to the website, www.irctic.co.in. First, just check for the trains, which are matching to your travel requirement and then you can choose the appropriate class of travel to find whether reservation is available or not. On finding that reservation is open, then you can check for the ticket fare and go ahead make the booking in a few steps. However, the payment has to be made with the use of credit / debit card or internet banking, so make sure that you have it before going ahead with booking.
The irctc seat availability can be checked at the railway station booking counters too if you are not so fond of online methods. You can simply fill in the reservation form at the reservation counter and submit it with the required ticket fare to get the booking done. On not having the availability of confirmed tickets, you can alternatively book tickets under the Reservation against Cancellation (RAC) or Wait List (WL) categories and keep on checking whether it is getting confirmed before journey.