New Delhi: Here comes a piece of good news for the train passngers. Now, you won’t have to worry about changing your boarding station before catching your train on time. The Indian Railways has started a new facility where passengers can change and manage their boarding station even four hours before the scheduled departure of the train. As per earlier rules, passengers can change their boarding railway stations around 24 hours before the scheduled departure of the train.
With the new set of rules, the Indian Railways has made changes in the IRCTC ticketing system for the convenience and ease of passengers. The new feature is that passengers can change the boarding station more than once.
It is interesting to note that to change the boarding station, passengers will not have to pay the extra fare, but if the change has been made within a period of 24 hours, then the refund on the ticket will not be available.
How to change the boarding station
- First you need to visit the official IRCTC website irctc.co.in
- On the home page, Log in by entering your username and password
- Then on the next page, visit My Account > My Transactions > Booked Ticket History
- On this page, you will havew to select ticket for which you want to change the boarding station and select the ‘Change Boarding Point’ option
- A new window will appear with a list of stations between the selected train route. Choose your desired boarding point
- On the new page, the station system will ask for confirmation, click ‘OK’ to change the boarding point of your ticket
- Then one alert message will appear if boarding station is changed successfully
- Another message regarding updated boarding point will be sent on your mobile number provided during booking
