Indian Railways General Ticket Rules: Most of the people buy general tickets from Indian Railways for short distance journeys. There are some important rules for traveling by general i.e. unreserved ticket.
Indian Railways General Ticket Rules: Big festivals like Navratri and Diwali are coming. In such a situation, there is important news for railway passengers. Generally, for short distance journeys people buy general tickets, while for long distance journeys they buy reservation tickets. However, it has been seen many times that people even travel long distances and complete their journey by sitting in general i.e. unreserved coach.
There are some coaches in the train
Often trains have AC, sleeper and common coaches. So that people can travel according to their financial capacity. Actually, the fare of general coach is the lowest and that of AC coach is the highest.
You can travel in window ticket general bogie
There is no need to take any reserve ticket to travel in general bogie. For this, people can easily travel by taking tickets from the window.
There are rules for traveling in coaches
Indian Railways has made rules for traveling in all coaches and if these are violated, the Railways can also impose fine on the passenger.
Traveling in more than one train with one ticket is illegal
Many times it has been seen that people travel by more than one train with one ticket and reach their destination. According to railway law, this is wrong and you may also have to pay a fine. According to railway rules, you should travel by the train for which you have taken the ticket. Even if the ticket is general or unreserved.
The name and time of the station is written on the ticket.
Let us tell you that the name and time of the station from where you buy it is written on the ticket. On the basis of which TTE can catch you and can also impose heavy fine on you.
Validity of general ticket is
Actually, general ticket has a fixed time limit after which it becomes invalid. The validity of general tickets purchased from metro city stations like Delhi, Mumbai is 1 hour. In this one hour the passenger has to catch the train. Whereas the duration of a train ticket purchased from a small station is 3 hours.
