How to book an Indian Railways Train Ticket Online?

The period from April to June is summer vacation for students in India. It is also the season when people would like to visit their favorite tourism spots or visit their relatives living in distant towns or cities.This is usually a very busy season for Trains in India and booking a train ticket is not that easy.

If you are looking for booking an Indian Railways Train Ticket online, IRCTC has an online booking facility for Indian Raiways Train Tickets.You can book a train ticket from any station to any station in India to travel in any class, 90 days in advance of journey date. To do this log on to http://irctc.co.in/ and follow the below steps:

• 1. If you don’t have an account with IRCTC, Create a free account with an username and password of your choice.
• 2. Enter all the mandatory details required in the account creation form. Ensure that your residential address is given correctly, as it will ensure prompt delivery of booked tickets, in case you opt for delivery of tickets.
• 3. Once you have created an account successfully, you have to log in everytime using this username and password, to book a ticket.
• 4. Once you log in, you get a screen as below

Enter your source and destination stations with date, preferred class of travel and also choose an i-ticket or e-ticket. An i-ticket refers to a ticket which will be delivered by courier, at your residential address. For this you have to book the ticket at least before 2 days of travel.

An e-ticket can be booked up to the time of chart preparation for your train. Any one of the travelling passenger in this ticket has to provide proof of his/her identity like Voter ID card/ Passport/PAN Card/Driving License/Photo Identity Card issued by Central/State Government.The same proof of identity should be carried during the train journey. You can take a printout of the e-ticket.

You can also book tatkal tickets by choosing the tatkal option. After filling the above details click find trains.

• 5. The list of all trains available between the selected source and destination stations appear on the screen.

• 6. Choose the train suitable for your journey, from the list and click book ticket. This will get you to the following page:

• 7. Enter details of every passenger like name, age, sex, preferred berth etc and click Go. You will be taken to a screen showing the details of your journey, as entered. If the details are appropriate, click make payment. Else click replan my journey to make alterations.
• 8.Then you will be directed to a payment gateway, where you can make the payment using a credit card, or a debit card or cards specifically issued for booking tickets
• 9. Confirmation of ticket booked can be viewed under Booked tickets link in My Transactions page of your account.

• 9. Then select the ticket to print if it is an e-ticket.

You now have a valid train ticket to travel on Indian Railways. No more waiting in long queues for booking train tickets. Enjoy the hassle free way of booking tickets online!!!