Indian Railways Seat Availability

Railways are the most common means of long distance travel in India. Indian railways offer a five star services and a comfort accommodation for passengers. In spite of that fares are also less. This is the main reason that why people prefers to travel in trains. They will get all types of comfort and services during their journey.

Indian railways are providing the best possible services to the passengers. The official website www.irctc.co.in of Indian railways will allow a person to check the seat availability online.

If you want to know how to check the Indian railways seat availability just follow the following steps:

  • Go to the Indian railways online website to check the seat availability. ( www.indianrail.gov.in)
  • On the page you will get an option ‘Seat Availability ‘, click on the option.
  • Enter first few characters of source station in source station box.
  • Now enter the first few characters of destination station in front of that box.
  • Now select the class in which you want to travel. You can check the seat availability for all classes by selecting all class.
  • Enter your journey detail day and month in the column.
  • Click on ‘Get Details’ button.
  • You will find all source and destination stations on the page. Choose your appropriate station and click on ‘Get it’ button.
  • Now you will get a list of all the trains between selected stations.
  • Click on the train for which you want to check the seat availability and than click on the “get availability’ button.
  • Now you will get all the information regarding your search seat availability.
  • Click on the following link to go to The Indian Railways official website: http://www.indianrail.gov.in/
Content updated in January 2023
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