@first blogger:
Your tickets are now confirmed and you will be allotted berth on preparation of chart. At the time of booking your ticket was in RAC which has now been confirmed due to cancellation by passengers.

@first blogger:
yea it is confirmed

@anon: Mar 04 (03:56PM)
I AM TRAVELLING WITH 2 KIDS SO U R REQUESTED TO ALLOT ALL THE 3 IN ONE COMPARTMENT ONLY

@first blogger:
yes it is confirmed

@anon: Mar 18 (04:46PM)
Most probably it will be in a compartment.

@Jhentee Jivraj:
In some earlier blog you had told that you would be arriving by Lokshakti in the same day in morning. If that is the case, then there will not be sufficient time for you to go to Ghatkopar and freshen up and then go to Kalyan.
Otherwise, the easiest way to go to Kalyan from Ghatkopar is by local train. You will get a direct train from Ghatkopar. It would be safe if you leave by 7 am so that you reach kalyan with sufficient time to locate the platform on which Mangala Exp would come.

@Manish: Mar 18 (06:37PM)
Sir,
you are right recalling my statement. I will be arriving as scheduled. but leaving the Mubai depends on confirmed seats. as the journey is so long by train.
and thank you for suggestion to go by local train.
further if I may say, leaving mumbai next day also is not bad idea, if confirmed tickets are coming my way.
it is getting too complex with lots of trains available but no confimed tickets/

@first blogger:
Mr Vinod,
As you have booked an e-ticket, you need to file TDR to claim the refund. Please log into your irctc account and follow the process for filing TDR. The TDR will be processed by railways and amount credited back to your credit card. This process may take upto 90 days.Any furthur queries, please post here.

@Manish: Mar 18 (08:14PM)
In case of train cancellation e tickets can be cancelled upto 3 days of the scheduled departure of the train from your boarding station. No need to file tdr. Ticket will be cancelled instantly(no matter whether the chart prepared or not). The refund amount (full amount excluding irctc service charge) will be credited back to your account used for booking.
Because now three day limit is over you have to file tdr for refund and it may take some time to get processed.

@first blogger:
Please take your tickets to the nearest PRS and ask for boarding change. If there is any difference in fares, it will be collected. I don't there will be diference, but just in case there is you should be prepared. Please approach the PRS Supervisor, with a letter asking for boarding change. If it is an e-ticket ID proof of one of the passengers would be required. That is the procedure laid down.
However, I think you can safely go to CSTM and board the train since I think tickets will be checked only after the train leaves the Mumbai suburban halts for the train. Good wishes.

@Murli: Mar 18 (06:03AM)
i) It will not be possible for boarding change to a station before the station from which the ticket is booked.
ii) Here in this case, there is a fare difference ( CSTM to Chennai and Dadar to Chennai) and if you try to board the train at CST, then be prepared for full fare ticket from CST to Dadar (and not only - fare difference) as well as hefty fine.
iii) Approahing PRS supervisor with a request letter will not be of any use as they are not authorised to backward station boarding change.
iv) The question will not be of any fare difference but you will have to pay independently for one more ticket from CST to Dadar as your jouney ticket has nothing to do with your travelling from CST to Dadar. If it is AC class ticket and travel, then ticket cost CST to Dadar and fine will be very heavy and you would like to avoid that.
v) The fare from CST to Dadar is ...
Sleeper AC 3-tier AC 2-tier
Rs. 120 Rs. 210 Rs. 279
and the fine for ticketless travelling. You may decide to buy another ticket itself for CST to Dadar.

@Kapadia : Mar 18 (09:39AM)
Plz add iia) in the abvoe reply ....
iia) Even if there is no fare difference between CST - Chennai and Dadar Chennai, be prepared to pay for full ticket cost and hefty fine for a travel between CST to Dadar as this will be independent travel and no question of linking to your travel from Dadar to Chennai. ..

@Murli: Mar 18 (06:03AM)
Can you re-confirm Sir ? Just difference in fare. I posted my views in earlier 2 - reply posts.

@Kapadia : Mar 18 (12:17PM)
You are correct. Boarding point station cannot be changed to a backward station.In this case it is not possible to change boarding point to Mumbai CST from Dadar.

@first blogger:
On paper it is 03 minutes but that is sufficient for a family to board. Only you have to be careful about the right platform (Western Rly. or Central Rly.). Display boards are there to indicate coaches. The chart will also tell you the position of your coach from the engine. Better still porters know the exact location. All bloggers who say that you will be charged for your journey from CSTM to DDR are right. You will not get upper class tkt from the window. You have to buy II class open tkt, approach the TTE and pay the excess fare without fine.

@Manish:
Strange. With journey date being 31.5.2010, it ought to mention the Berth No. too. Has there been a change in the system so far as Duronto booking is concerened ? Not known.

@Kapadia : Mar 17 (03:38PM)
Maybe Jiteshji/MurliJi can answer.

@Manish:
The booking status is RAC-5 which has been confirmed. So berth Bo. and coach No. will be provided only at time of chart preparation

@siddharth: Mar 17 (08:57PM)
The question here is how cum the running status was WL before and now RAC?

@Kapadia : Mar 17 (03:38PM)
No strange at all.........
Being RAC there will no berth no.
@first blogger
Status change because u booked the available ticket so next person will get first RAC

@MST IndianRailways: Mar 17 (09:54PM)
the ticket has got confirmed after booking meaning status has moved up.

@Manish:
can i get circular ticket of duranto & rajdhani

@Manish: Mar 17 (04:01PM)
Not strange at all. Whenever you look up status and its shows available, we all presume we are the only ones looking up and booking! There are thousands, rather lakhs of people like us, who are doing the same thing. So you get into the queue. Note that simply seeing Waitlist/Available does not indicate HOW MANY are available. By the time you book, somebody has already done that booking before you! Plus W/L/RAC movement for any train, not only Duranto, is dynamic and in the season, you will find lots of people trying to book, cancel, and so on.
Yes since it is RAC confirmation, it will show on chart preparation. Here comes the play of Passenger Logic. There may be quotas involved such as Ladies, senior citizens, HO, other quotas etc., which are fixed, plus system logic will try to allocate seats/berths on 'family' basis i.e. two-six persons on a PNR. Therefore you will find that the CNF on RAC is made to wait for the above considerations to be worked out before allocating the actual berth on RAC/WL CNF tickets! The list is by no means exhaustive. Good wishes to all !

@anon: Mar 17 (11:32PM)
Yes you can: Here are the Rules..but in Durantos, you will NOT get the advantage of getting down at intermediate stations (you can get down, but your ticket will not be endorsed and journey will be treated as completed end to end) and in Rajdhanis it can only be to stations where it normally halts. Please contact your reservation office for issue of such tickets; Best of luck and good wishes. Taken from indianrailways.gov.in
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Circular Journey Ticket (AS ON 1.5.07)
(1) Normal rules on Break Journey will not apply in case of Circular Journey Tickets for such circular journey which commences and completes at the same station. Return Journey on the shortest route or on a route upto 15% longer than the shortest route will not be treated as circular journey for this purpose. Circular Journey Tickets can be issued for all classes. Before issuing Circular Journey Ticket, the passenger should be asked to advise the names of maximum eight stations (excluding originating/destination station) where he wants to break the journey.
(2) Validity period - The validity period for the ticket will be calculated at the sum of journey days and break journey days - journey days to be calculated @ 1 day per 400 kms distance or part thereof and break journey days to be calculated @ 1 day per 200 Kms. The ticket will be valid from the day of journey indicated on the ticket. There will be no restriction on commencing the break journey. The passenger will be required to put his signature with date on the ticket on commencement of journey.
(3) Break Journey - On a circular journey ticket the maximum number of break journey will be 8 (eight). The endorsement of break-journey is not required on Circular Journey Tickets.
(4) Fare for Circular Journey ticket - The circular journey ticket will be charged for two single journeys, each journey being taken as half of the total distance. Reservation charges for different legs of journeys, supplementary charge on super-fast, etc. will be levied extra. If a passenger travels in higher class or by higher category of trains, he will be required to pay the difference of fares for such distance on point to point basis.
Note Number 4 "higher class or by higher category of trains"
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@Murli: Mar 18 (06:17AM)
Plz peruse the full reply post again.
It is strange to us in so far as there is no berth number alloted. There is nothing strange as fas as RAC getting confirmed in the intervening short period. Do you mean to say that berth will be alloted only at the time of chart preparation and the passengers' ticket will be berth -less for more than 2 months ? The system ought to generate berth No. at the time final booking status is clicked and ticket is booked. It has still no berth No. and that is strange to us but note that this is not uncommon in Rlys.

@Murli: Mar 18 (06:17AM)
@Kapadia
Just to clarify again.
First I checked the availability status which showed WL/Available.
Next I booked the ticket and got a confirmed reservation at booking itself but berth number was not allotted.
Then I again checked the availability after booking which showed RAC6/RAC1.

@anon: Mar 17 (11:32PM)
CJT can be had for DURONTO but NOT for RAJDHANI. CJTs are issued for a particular class of journey on standard fares whereas Rajdhanis & Shatabdis have point to point ALL INCLUSIVE fares which do not match standard fares.

@Manish: Mar 18 (04:59PM)
Dear all,
This prompts me to share my personal experience in 2007 while booking 05 3A berths by Navjeevan Exp. On printing my particulars the Resv. Clerk said the status was WL/5, I okayed. On seeing the ticket it was RAC/6-10. The same evening on checking the status at home, it said CNF. I don't think this is strange. Sometimes status moves faster than our imagination while at other times even WL/1 refuses to budge.

Suppose I am trying to book a ticket. On checking status I found WL/Available. If I proceed to book ticket at this status I will get confirmed one but at the seat no it will be printed as confirmed.(Seat No will be alloted at the chart preparation)
I booked once at this status and got the above result.

@first blogger:
This train not yet started. It is expected to start soon. Once news about its statring is announced, it will be updated here.

@first blogger:
No pantry car in this train.

@first blogger:
There may be some regional items like sweets, etc catering to the tastes of Gujaratis.Otherwise the menu is almost same as in other Rajdhanis.I have heard, in Howrah Rajdhani they have an option of fish as Bengalis are fond of fish.

Madhusudan: it depends on the destination station, its Rs.97 till Mumbai CST from Bangalore City.

@first blogger:
Tatkal charges are calculated as a percentage of Basic Fare with Minimum and Maximum ceilings.
The relevent rules are :-
The Tatkal Charges have been fixed as a percentage of fare at the rate of 10% of basic fare for second class and 30% of basic fare for all other classes subject to minimum and maximum as given in the table below:-

Class of Travel Minimum Tatkal Charges Maximum Tatkal Charges
Second(sitting) Rs. 10:00 Rs. 15:00
Sleeper Rs. 75:00 Rs. 150:00
AC Chair Car Rs. 75:00 Rs. 150:00
AC 3 Tier Rs. 200:00 Rs. 300:00
AC 2 Tier Rs. 200:00 Rs. 300:00
Executive Rs. 200:00 Rs. 300:00
The above charges will be levied uniformly both in peak period & non-peak periods

@Kapadia : Mar 18 (11:31AM)
@ first blooger :
The basic fare is 343/-
Tatkal charges will be 30% of basic fare i.e. 30% of Rs. 343/-
So Tatkal charges will be Rs. 103/- from SBC to CST .

@Kapadia : Mar 18 (11:42AM)
But in this case the Tatkal fare is Rs 97 as per indianrail.gov.in

@first blogger:
Please post your experience of Palace on Wheels train after travel.