General Rail Ticket: In the trains whose Northern Railway has decided to de-reserve general coaches, now passengers will be able to travel with general tickets from the due date. Passengers will now be able to buy general tickets by going to the station to travel in second class coaches like the arrangement before the pandemic.
There is good news for railway passengers. Now people traveling by Indian Railways will not need to take reserved tickets for general coaches. Railways has decided to convert general coaches of hundreds of long distance trains into unreserved coaches. Northern Railway has released a list of trains in which general coaches have been unreserved by tweeting. The Railways had taken the decision to restore the old system in general coaches at the end of February itself.
Railways had said at that time that only after the advance reservation period is over, passengers will be able to travel on general tickets in general coaches. Explain that during the Corona period, general coaches were also made reserved to protect the passengers from infection. Since then, passengers had to get ticket reservation done to travel in these coaches.
No need to make reservation
In the trains of which Northern Railway has decided to de-reserve general coaches, now passengers will be able to travel with general tickets from the due date. Passengers will now be able to buy General Rail Ticket by going to the station to travel in second class coaches just like the arrangement before the pandemic. Let us know which trains are in the list issued by the Northern Railway. In this list, the train number, station of travel and the date from which the general coaches will become unreserved have been given.
This is notified for the information of passengers that the General Coaches have been made UNRESERVED in following long distance trains originating over NR w.e.f. the dates mentioned in the table. pic.twitter.com/dZ830lIYxT
— Northern Railway (@RailwayNorthern) April 26, 2022
Advance reservation period is 120 days
Let us inform that at the end of February, the Indian Railways had announced to restore the old system in the general coaches of trains. Also, the Railways had said that passengers will be able to travel on general tickets only after the advance reservation period is over. Please note that the advance reservation period is 120 days. “General coaches in regular trains will be marked as reserved or unreserved, as these were prevalent during the pre-pandemic period,” the officials had said.
For example, if a train had 4 unreserved general coaches during the pre-pandemic period, but is now being operated as second class reserved class, they will be given advance reservation period (after 120 days) or no booking. Will be reinstated as unreserved coach from the date (date on which no passenger has booked reservation ticket for second class).’
