IRCTC ticket booking: Indian Railways boarding station change rules you must know before travelling
Indian Railways Ticket Booking: With the festive season set to begin next month, passengers are advised to enter their boarding and destination points carefully, along with other details, while booking train tickets online, as ticket booking is the first step of the journey.
Indian Railways Ticket Booking, IRCTC Ticket Booking: With the festive season set to begin next month, passengers are advised to enter their boarding and destination points carefully, along with other details, while booking train tickets online, as ticket booking is the first step of the journey. However, many passengers often need to change their boarding point if they have mistakenly booked the ticket from a different station.
For example, if a traveller planning to go from Delhi to Howrah by Netaji Express may accidentally book the journey from Sabzi Mandi or Ghaziabad instead of Delhi. In such cases, it becomes necessary to change the boarding point at the earliest, otherwise, the passenger may not be allowed to board the train from Delhi.
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According to Indian Railways, passengers should be aware of the rules regarding boarding station changes before making any modifications.
In case the boarding station is changed within 24 hours of departure of train, no refund shall be permissible in normal circumstance; however, in exceptional circumstances like cancellation of train, non-attachment of coach, late running of train by more than three hours, normal refund rules shall be applicable.
In case a passenger has changed the boarding station, he/she will lose all the rights to board the train from the original boarding station. If found travelling without any proper authority to travel, passenger will have to pay fare with penalty between original boarding station to changed boarding station.
Boarding station change is not allowed if ticket is seized.
Boarding station change is not allowed for the PNRs with VIKALP option.
Online boarding station change is not allowed for I-Ticket.
Boarding station change is not allowed for current booking ticket.
If boarding station has been changed at the time of booking, then passengers can change boarding station one more time from “Booked Ticket History” section.
Boarding Station Change in IRCTC
Know step-by-step how to change boarding point after ticket booking:
Login by entering your User name and Password.
Go to MY ACCOUNT >> My Transactions >> Booked Ticket History
Select the ticket for which you want to change the Boarding Station and select the Change Boarding Point button.
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