Check your train reservation confirmation
chances in India - before or after booking
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You can Book a railway ticket in India online or by standing in elongated queues at reservation counters attached to stations. Unless you get a confirmed ticket, there is no surety that your ticket will ever get confirmed. Here is a website and mobileapp that will help you in getting a fair idea of your confirmation chances.
Trainman is able to predict how likely it is that your ticket will get a secured berth.
A website which loads pretty fast, Trainman doesn’t require any signup. You can mention the train you wish to board, the class you would like to travel, the date of your journey. Once you are done filling the required information, in addition to the list of trains available on your route, you also get to check your confirmation chances, and recent trends.
It has all the facilities of the Indian railway reservation inquiry system.
The ‘confirmation chances’ tells you how likely it is that you will get the ticket. The service says that anything above 65% holds a good chance. To make it even more useful for the users, the service uses color coding. Anything in green is good, whereas you might want to bunk the present option and look for alternative if the percentile is in yellow.
The prediction is based on past learning. The service claims that is has tested over 100,000 PNRs, out of which it has succeeded around 80-90 percent of the time.
It has all the facilities of the Indian railway reservation inquiry system.
The ‘confirmation chances’ tells you how likely it is that you will get the ticket. The service says that anything above 65% holds a good chance. To make it even more useful for the users, the service uses color coding. Anything in green is good, whereas you might want to bunk the present option and look for alternative if the percentile is in yellow.
The prediction is based on past learning. The service claims that is has tested over 100,000 PNRs, out of which it has succeeded around 80-90 percent of the time.
I found the mobile app extremely useful. In addition to the above, it has an alert system. Suppose you are travelling to different locations and made advanced booking, we can feed all the PNR s here. As soon as any of the waiting list status changes it gives an alert. So no need to login to irctc daily to check your chances.
Trends
Trends is a good feature in this programme. Once you click on it, you will get a fair idea of your waiting list confirmation chances.
This is another website offering similar features. Can try this too and can compare and convince yourselves.
Waiting Lists and type of waiting lists
A Waiting List Ticket (WL) is issued when there are no more reserved seats available to be booked. Indian Railways follows different quotas for each running train, with each quota in a train having a fixed number of reserved seats in different classes.
GNWL - General Waiting List :
A Ticket with a GNWL is issued when the Source station of the passenger is the Source station of the train or one of the stations near to it. This quota has the highest number of seats in any given train and has the highest probablity of getting confirmed at the time of final charting.
PQWL - Pooled Quota Waiting List
Railways have a pooled quote for Intermediate stations and a General Quota for the last station. If Pooled quota of intermediate station gets filled, you get PQWL wait listed ticket. Your ticket can get confirmed only if a passenger to an intermediate station cancels the ticket and NOT when a passenger to the last station cancels the ticket. When passengers to last station cancel the tickets, only tickets in General WL get confirmation. There are generally lesser number of intermediate passengers, but good part is no sooner a passenger to intermediate station cancels the ticket PQWL ticket get priority over the General WL ticket. Another relief is, there is no RAC in PQWL, it gets confirmed directly from PQWL to Confirmed ticket.
RLWL - Remote Location Wait List (RLWL)
Most trains have important stations marked as Remote Locations in the route, which mark the beginning of the RLWL quotas in the train. Hence, every train consists of a number of Remote Location Quotas, each with a fixed number of seats reserved. When the Source station of the passenger is one of these marked stations, or some stations after that, the RLWL quota is applicable on the reservations. Even this quota has a fewer number of seats as compared to GNWL.
CKWL - Tatkal Wating List
Most trains have a Tatkal Quota reserved to be booked one day in advance. Hence, the Waiting List is of the type CKWL, irrespective of your Source and Destination Stations.
RLGN: Remote Location General Waiting List (RLGN) is issued when a user books a ticket where WL quota is RLWL. This means after ticket booking RLWL gets named as RLGN.
RSWL: Roadside Station Waiting List (RSWL) is allotted when berths or seats are booked by the originating station for journeys up to the road-side station and distance restrictions may not apply. This waiting list has also very less chances of confirmation
RQWL: If a ticket is to be booked from an intermediate station to another intermediate station, and if it is not covered by the general quota or by the remote location quotas or pooled quota, the request for the ticket may go into a Request Waiting List (RQWL).
The chances of confirmation depend heavily on the number of seats in that particular quota. Hence, it is very much possible that a ticket with RLWL 20 doesn't get confirmed, whereas GNWL 200 gets confirmed in the same train
RLGN: Remote Location General Waiting List (RLGN) is issued when a user books a ticket where WL quota is RLWL. This means after ticket booking RLWL gets named as RLGN.
RSWL: Roadside Station Waiting List (RSWL) is allotted when berths or seats are booked by the originating station for journeys up to the road-side station and distance restrictions may not apply. This waiting list has also very less chances of confirmation
RQWL: If a ticket is to be booked from an intermediate station to another intermediate station, and if it is not covered by the general quota or by the remote location quotas or pooled quota, the request for the ticket may go into a Request Waiting List (RQWL).
The chances of confirmation depend heavily on the number of seats in that particular quota. Hence, it is very much possible that a ticket with RLWL 20 doesn't get confirmed, whereas GNWL 200 gets confirmed in the same train
