Table of Contents
- 1 Why IRCTC does not allow you to choose seats?
- 2 Can we choose berth in IRCTC?
- 3 Can we choose train seats?
- 4 Why does Irctc not show birth preferences?
- 5 Why does IRCTC not show birth preferences?
- 6 How can I lower my berth in IRCTC?
- 7 How does IRCTC’s seating system work?
- 8 What are the rules of seat allocation in Indian Railways for females?
- 9 Why do Indian Railways give lower berths to senior citizens?
Why IRCTC does not allow you to choose seats?
Railways just want to ensure a proper balance that each coach should have for equal load distribution. That is why when you book a ticket at the last, you are always allotted an upper berth and a seat numbered around 2-3 or 70, except when you are not taking a seat of someone who has cancelled his/her seat.
Can we choose berth in IRCTC?
The irctc.co.in also allows a user to select a choice of berth while booking the tickets online. While this feature doesn’t guarantee that you will be allotted the same seats as opted, there is another option that let you chose the option to book tickets only if one or two lower berth is available.
Can we choose train seats?
This is a possible process: Passenger logs into IRCTC website/app to book a ticket. While completing the transaction, a new window will pop-up wherein the passenger can view all vacant seats in a train, based on coaches. Depending on the preferences, the passenger can book a berth, and confirm it.
How can I change my seat preference in Irctc?
There is no way to change allotted berth on your ticket. If you don’t like allotted berth then you can do one of the following, but none guarantees a preferred berth: After boarding, request someone to exchange seat with you.
Why do Indian trains shake so much?
Originally Answered: Why do Indian Railways coaches vibrate so much? The rails are not properly manufactured, alligned, good amount of gap at joints, wheels outer surface & bearing are in detoriated condition and poor condition of Track tends to vibrate the coaches.
Why does Irctc not show birth preferences?
Well, as per a Quora thread, there is a technical reason behind this. Allotting you a seat by IRCTC isn’t as easy as booking a movie ticket where you are provided a seat map. Train is a moving object and safety concern for this is high. The software has algorithm to distribute the load evenly throughout the train.
Why does IRCTC not show birth preferences?
How can I lower my berth in IRCTC?
Passengers can apply for this quota on IRCTC’s main page while booking and select “Lower Berth” under the different options in the quota. Lower berths earmarked under senior citizen and women’s quota in the respective classes by default will get allotted to them.
How do I change my birth preference?
The best you can do is indicate a preference at the time of booking and IRCTC has its own algorithm to allot berths. It will allot your preferred choice of berth if there is enough availability and if it matches the algorithm it has in place. Once booked, there is no way to change anything except cancel and rebook.
Why do trains go faster at night?
Freight trains will sometimes go faster during the nighttime, the reason is that during the night, there are less passenger trains on the tracks. While there are not so many passenger trains traveling during the nighttime, freight trains may run with fewer stops.
How does IRCTC’s seating system work?
IRCTC’ softeare strictly follows an algorithm and allots seats in a pre- designed way. Imagine there are sleeper class coaches in a train numbered S1, S2 S3… S10, and in every coach there are 72 seats.
What are the rules of seat allocation in Indian Railways for females?
Indian Railways has some strict rules to allocates a seat for Female gender. The top rule in the list is a female gender never be allotted seat in the group of man allotted, and also two same age groups with opposite genders never will be assigned with the same compartment. Female gender berths are always lower or upper berth most of the scenarios.
Why do Indian Railways give lower berths to senior citizens?
Well, the reason is technical of course, but it is not related to physics. The simple reason is Indian Railways has different quotas, for eg: ladies/lower berth, senior citizen (always allotted lower berths), HO quota (almost always LB), RAC (lower or side lower) and several others.
Why is there a maximum number of seats in a train?
Railways just want to ensure a proper balance that each coach should have for equal load distribution. That is why when you book a ticket at the last, you are always allotted an upper berth and a seat numbered around 2-3 or 70, except when you are not taking a seat of someone who has cancelled his/her seat.