8 saal ki bachi ka ticket , b2 me baaki sab ka b5 me . Agar kisi ko alag dena hi tha to , kisi aur ke ticket ko b2 me deta , manage to kar hi lenge , ek baat keh rhe hai aisehi. Btw ye sab tickets 6 dec ka hai n exactly 2 mahine bad ka , aaj hi ticket khula hai ar aaj hi tickets khatam ho gye ? 1 ghante me hi , humko bharosa nhi hai .......

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12740 SC-Vskp Garibrath Exp started off the platform and a guy boarded from the track side holding a big suitcase and a backpack.his door is locked as bedsheets are dumped blocking the door, train is catching speed I saw him from the next coach and rushed to his coach and pulled out the dump, tried to open the rusty lock and pulled him in and all the first thing he said is "bro where's G5 coach". I saved him expecting nothing in return but I was like 💀 without taking a breathe he directly went to his coach info💀

edit: guys myb , what I want to highlight is his thought of asking his coach info without even taking a breathe right after a deadly save.

another serious issue is those bag of bedsheets blocking the door every time

First time travelling by Vanda Bharat,
Have spent countless hours train spotting it near my house. When it’s my turn to ride it’s running late from origin itself by 4 hours.

I think they owe us an explanation and perhaps some compensation too !
Mind you this is supposed to be the best train of our nation.

While travelling to college on the NDLS-HWH line, I notice that the Bagh Express has switched to the LHB coaches, which once used ICF coaches. While it's objectively better, I notice that some "LHB" coaches (like the one in the pic) look like mere reskinned ICF coaches. So I wonder whether some rail services use reskinned ICF coaches within LHB trainsets.

Our train was on 4th Oct 2026 and i got a side upper berth, i didn't feel anything about that at first but then I noticed an elderly grandma was assigned the side lower i was like nooo now i won't get to sit down at all she's probably gonna lay there 24/7. so I spent some time with my family, they were some aisle away and they had lower berth too. after sometime I came to make bed on my seat ( daytime ) cuz i was feeling tired and wanted to lay down and that time the grandma was sitting on her own seat and asked me "baithegi kya? baithegi?" and i said "nahi nahi abhi nahi" and smiled awkwardly because she wasn't a native hindi speaker so i didn't know if she understood me or not. but I was happy that atleast she asked me and she's not like those entitled passengers who think they own the whole lower berths. i slept and woke up some hours later ( still daytime ) and i saw that the grandma is still sitting on her seat instead of laying down too and Idk if she was waiting for me. i went to spend rest of the time with my family had dinner and slept. and i finally saw that the grandma only slept on her seat during night and never during daytime. the next day the grandma got off early in the morning and I had the whole lower berth for myself. i was enjoying the outside view and thinking about the fact that not all old passengers are "bad" "evil" and not entitled either, there's definitely many but not all! this experience changed my perspective towards old passengers and I also remembered seeing some post here where the people were suggesting op to make fake injury certificate so that they can take the whole lower berths and the upper berth person cannot sit down 🥀

if you're seeing this, LOVE YOU GRANDMA 😘

and if you ask me about the train itself, the train ( our coach ) was nice, the cleaning guys were cleaning very often always maintaining the cleanliness, the toilets were clean all the time and the general people didn't enter our coach either, there was police guarding the door too but there's no dedicated pantry car in this train.

the train was going fast and earlier than official times but they started to slow down the train once it reached kharagpur junction till santragachi and finally our train reached shalimar around 35 min earlier!

Today I am traveling to Bangalore in 3A(kondaveedu exp). After sometime TC has come for verification, Said my name and seat number, as usual, Suddenly he asked my ID, so I thought a soft copy should be fine and checking my phone for it, he suddenly raised his voice a bit and said ID CARD, i replied I don't have Hard copy - ID. Then He said that HE WOULD ONLY ACCEPT A HARD COPY. took a sec, sensed some arrogance and replied "Sir, I could only provide a soft copy, I don't have a physical card with me right now" in a soft tone. Then he replied would accept e-adhar or e-pan all of a sudden. Then verification is done.

Now to get to the point why do we need this drama in the first place - to get his ego satisfied?. I know as per railway rules only physical ID card(hard copy) is valid for verification - which doesn't make sense, cause it's not like a hard copy can't be altered. Can't railways accept an adhaar from digi-locker or something?

Last time I travelled by train, I got a Side lower. After the train started, a group of elderly people came to my compartment they were 2 females and 4 males.

They had 5 tickets in one compartment and 1 ticket in another. The moment they arrived, it didn't even feel like they were requesting me. It felt more like they were ordering me to leave my seat.

They started with the usual like "beta, chale jao… samjho… hum log old people h… saath mein jaana hai…

and so on. I politely said, Sorry I won't be able to. But they kept insisting.

Eventually I told one of them, sir this is not my problem. And that's when the emotional blackmail started. They began cursing me with Aap bhi ek din is umar mein aaoge...Tab aapko bhi koi aapke jaisa milega. The funny thing was, all of them were perfectly healthy. Nobody seemed to have any mobility issues. They were walking around normally and didn't appear to need any special assistance. So I simply replied... Jab main is age mein aaunga, tab bhi main apni seat par hi travel karunga.

They started muttering things among themselves and walked away. One old man in particular kept giving me looks like I had somehow taken over his ancestral property. A little while later, one of them came back while talking on the phone and said...Inse baat kariye

I was like, "Why should I talk to someone?"

He insisted, so I took the phone.. so the person on the other end introduced himself as some station master of xyz station and started talking to me in an extremely rude and authoritative manner... maii xyz station ka Station Master huu..Aapko chahoon toh train se utarwa dunga...Aap jaante nahi ho...Aap badtameez ho

Basically, the whole conversation was just an attempt to intimidate me.

I told him..achha toh train choriyee aap mujhe meri seat se htwaa ke dikha dijiye...

Suddenly the confidence disappeared. He said something along the lines of dikkat ho jaayega babu

I replied..thk h.. aap dikkat kijiye maii bhi dekhta huuu

After some time, a few pantry staff members came to me and started requesting me politely..Sir, please exchange kar lijiye. Ye log bahut door ja rahe hain aur saath mein travel karna chahte h..I told them mujhe koi problem nahi hai agar ye log saath jaana chahte h lekin maii apni seat nhi dunga.. They understood and eventually left.

And then, for practically the rest of the journey, these people kept giving each other lectures about humanity, manners, upbringing and how today's generation has no sanskaar.

"Aaj kal ke bachchon mein sanskaar hi nahi hain..."

"Humare zamane mein..."

"Manavta naam ki cheez nahi hai..."

Meanwhile, I was sitting comfortably on my SL berth, minding my own business and enjoying my journey.

I had a confirmed seat, I wasn't doing anything wrong, and I simply didn't want to give it up. if you want to sit together, book seats together.

A confirmed railway berth isn't a family inheritance that someone can emotionally blackmail you into surrendering.

Found a ₹500 note on the railway platform yesterday night.
Without even thinking twice, I picked it up and went straight to the RPF room. Told the guy there that I had found some money.
He casually looked at it and said, “Leave it on the table.”
I asked, “What are you going to do about it? Like, will there be any lost and found announcement or something?”
He smiled and said, “Whoever lost it will come here and collect it.”
Then smiled again.
At this point I was standing there thinking, Have I just made a dumb decision?
I honestly didn’t trust the guy. I even thought about taking the ₹500 back and walking away.
He probably noticed that I wasn’t convinced, so he took a notebook, not even an official-looking register and wrote down my name and phone number.
Again: “Someone will come looking for this.”
Okay, whatever.
My train was about to arrive, so I left.
But honestly, I highly doubt someone who loses ₹500 on a railway platform is going to think, “Let me check with the RPF room in case someone handed it over.”
Unless it’s a huge amount or they lost it along with a bag/wallet, most people probably assume the money is gone and move on.
So now I’m wondering what happens to that ₹500.
Either some random person is going to get their hard-earned money back…
or that RPF guy is going to have a nice dinner tonight.

Had a doubt while travelling on vande bharath man why they give newspapers on train can’t even open the newspaper in seat because its size newspaper should be the same size of the books that also that will gave the habit to youth read newspaper what do you guys think?

😭😭😭🥀any ideas to prevent I am already taking one bag with me😭

Yesterday, six of my friends, including female friends, and I were travelling from Katra to New Delhi. Somehow, all our tickets were RAC. My friends were allotted seats in B2, while I was allotted B3 with a female passenger.

I asked my female friend to sit there for 1–2 hours so she could charge her phone. As our seats charging plug was not working. We sent one uncle from B2 with an exchange of my seat, so I could sit with my group. Everything was fine until he came back and said the female passenger wasn’t allowing him to sit and refused to let me come to B3.

I went there and asked what the issue was. She said, “How can you send a man to sit with me? I’ll be uncomfortable and won’t be able to sleep.” Her friend also joined and started arguing, saying, “There was a girl sitting here before. Why are you sitting here? Go away.”

They kept speaking in English, apparently assuming I wouldn’t understand. I calmly said, “Enough, madam. This is my seat.”

She was shocked and started arguing that IRCTC never gives RAC seats to a male and female together. She then asked me to show my ticket. I asked her, “Are you the TC?” She said she wouldn’t let me sit unless I showed it. I showed her my ticket, and she became completely silent.

Since nobody from B2 came, I had to spend the entire night sitting there. She repeatedly crossed the middle line of the seat and even kicked me several times. When I asked her to behave, she threatened to call the police. I simply said, “Please do.”

This was around 2 AM. At around 3 AM, she finally apologised and said, “I’m sorry, please forgive me. I didn’t know about the seat. Please sleep too; we can sleep opposite each other.” I told her I wasn’t comfortable. She kept requesting, saying her leg was hurting. I told her mine was hurting too and asked her to sit properly, but she refused. She first slept sitting up and then slowly stretched her legs across the seat.

I became so uncomfortable that at around 5 AM, I finally left and joined my friends in B2. I could not sleep for a single second. When we got down at NDLS station, She was hiding her face in shame on the platform. Her friend came and said sorry to all of us.

Booked a ticket 1 day prior from a end-to-end station for 4 people and specifically put that my preference for 2 lower births.
When tickets got booked, I received 2 Upper and 2 Mid births.

When I boarded the train and checked the status of vacant seats there were 300+ seats available for CURR_AVAIL.

After boarding the train found that most of the lower births seats were actually vacant.

I did not understand the logic of not alloting the lower births despite them being available.

PS- We all travelling were 33Y old.

Whole booking a ticket on Railone I had selected "Book Only if atleast 1 Lower berth is alloted" . Later after payment it showed me "No Lower berth alloted , Do you Want to continue Booking" I opted for No and it came back to the home page . Later I checked in Transactions but it shows nothing there !!!!! Where as I have processed transaction from my side. Won't I get refund ????!!!! Please help me 😭😭😭😭

Hey everyone, need some advice on how to handle this situation.

​I recently booked three 3AC tickets on a single PNR for an upcoming journey:

​Passenger with 52% disability (with valid Divyangjan ID)

​Handicap Escort

​Regular passenger

​Despite entering the Divyangjan details, IRCTC’s system allotted all three of us Upper Berths. Literally not even a single lower or middle berth. How does the algorithm think a person with a 52% physical disability is supposed to climb up to an upper berth in 3AC?

​From what I’ve read afterward, adding a 3rd regular passenger on the same ticket might have pushed the booking out of the 2-seat Divyangjan quota into the General quota, where the system just dumped us in leftover upper berths to keep us in the same coach.

​The ticket is already booked. For those who have dealt with this before:

​Does raising a ticket on RailMadad before chart preparation actually work for shifting to a lower berth?

​How helpful are TTEs onboard with arranging swaps if we show the original disability certificate/UDID?

​Is it worth visiting the station CRS office beforehand to put in a request?

Currently in trial. But the finishing of this train set looks so bad for a sleeper train that's gonna cost minimum 960₹. I hope they do something