SMS-based Rail Ticket Booking from IRCTC Open – How to Book Tickets

Indian Railways is considered to be the biggest rail network in the world. It has been serving people since ages by providing top notch facilities at the most reasonable rates. Continuing with imparting the same facilities, it has additionally added feathers in its cap by providing SMS based rail ticket booking where passengers can further heave sigh of relief by booking tickets through sending message. This has created a revolution as the facility is all set to ease lakhs of passengers on daily basis that had to face lots of inconveniences on daily basis otherwise.

 

Now, thanks to the facility, even people who did not have internet on their mobile can equally avail this facility. Since, people with just simple phones are able to enjoy the luxury of this sophisticated facility just by sending messages. The thing to note here is that in order to be eligible for this facility, you have to use it between 8 and 12 midnight. There are a maximum number of four tickets which can be booked at one go.

 

You just need to register yourself with IRCTC (where your contact no. will be required to register to the whole process) and that is very easy. Thereafter, you will be getting the user ID which you will be using for SMS bookings. The best thing is that you just need to SMS to 5676714 “RAIL” in order to initiate the whole process of booking.

 

START IRCTC_USER_ID to 5676714 from the mobile which you have registered.

 

The whole process stands out to be so easy and effective and this promises to be the befitting reflection of the advancement of technology where any body can operate this wonderful way of booking Tatkal tickets at the comforts of their home or office. The move brings smiles to the increasing numbers of people who were facing never ending issues while booking Tatkal tickets and they were hapless to the core before.
Thereby, on successful completion, you are going to get the message from the Indian Railways

 

Now, you will be directed accordingly in terms of

• Typing the station code (origin) to the destination code

• DDMMYY,

• Train number along with the class which you are going to choose.

• (First)Passenger’s name, Age, M/F, (second passenger’s name and so on.

The thing which you want to know is the origin and the destination code of the station.

 

After that, as the transaction is accomplished, you will know the availability details along with your transaction, fare etc. Thereby, accordingly you get the confirmation message where you will be told to book the tickets as soon as possible with the subsequent information.

 

This is how people are going to book tickets as it is so easy after all. Even persons with little or no knowledge can surely be able to accomplish it in a detailed way without any sort of problems or worries. Now, it can be emphatically said that booking tickets is going to be easy after all. Isn’t it?