hey, i'm about to go to indi for a road trip nd i'm trying to book a ticket delhi-kolkata on the net http://www.indianrail.gov.in/cgi_bin/inet_frenq_cgi.cgi but can't actually pay, i can only get the formal info. Do anyone know how does it works pleasE??
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Posted on Jul 14, 2012
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Camille, you will have to book the ticket through irctc.co.in. Create an account there and off you go. It is a pretty slow site so be prepared for some switchbacks and re-logins :-)
Posted Jul 15, 2012
Add a commentWell sugato when i created my account it asked me to give a indian phone number so it could send me an extra code necessary to logg in. Indeed i can t logg in because i dt have any indian phone number and u can t even give any foreign number. What am i supposed to do? Anyway do i really need to book to tickect in advance with all this worries.?
Posted on Jul 18, 2012
Also inform your credit company that you are making a payment on this website. We tried a couple of years ago and the transaction wouldn't go through. The next morning Amex called to say that they had blocked payment as we had never used that site before. After that it was ok.
Posted Jul 17, 2012
Add a commentThanks for the advice! I ll inform my bank when eventually i ll be able to logg in...
Posted on Jul 18, 2012
Camille - when are you buying the tickets for? Delhi to Kolkata is one of the busiest train routes in India. That may be another reason why the website jammed up.
There is another website - makemytrip.com - try booking your ticket through that - it is going to take a service charge as it is not a railways site, but it should work. you have to make an account for that too. But choose the option of 'not remembering your credit card information'
Hope this helps.
Posted Jul 21, 2012
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