Rail Tickets News

IRCTC will levy a service charge of ₹15 on tickets for non-AC classes and ₹30 for AC classes, including first classThe Goods and Services Tax (GST) will be applicable separately

The railways imposes the surcharge on booking or purchase of railway tickets at places across the country where fairs are organised to meet its extra-internal expenditure on the fairs

This facility is only available to travel to 12 stations in Allahabad

The pilot project for the unreserved ticket booking was already running on select Central Railway stations

A passenger has to be within a five-kilometre range of the source station to be able to buy a ticket through the UTS app. The passenger is allowed to book four tickets at a time

Indian Railways has decided to scrap its flexi-fare system (surge pricing) in trains with less than 50% occupancy and reduce the flexi-fare mark from 1.5 times to 1.4 times the full ticket price

A passenger needs to be 25-30 metres away from the railway station to avail the UTS app facility and is allowed to book as many as unreserved tickets at a time

Tatkal booking opens at 10 am for AC classes and 11 am for non-AC classes one day in advance of the actual date of journey

Indian Railways proposes to charge user development fee of Rs10 on AC Class and chair car tickets that cost more than Rs500 per trip to give people at railway stations the kind of facilities that are available at airports

The railway earnings realised from April to December 2017 from errant travellers was Rs121.09 crore against Rs100.53 crore during the corresponding period in 2016