Indian Railways: Sometimes a need to change the boarding station is felt after the train ticket is booked. Because many times the boarding station ie from where you have to catch the train is far from your reach and there is also the fear of missing the train. But this facility of IRCTC will make your problem easy.
New Delhi: Indian Railways: Sometimes such an emergency also comes in front of railway passengers, when they have to catch a train from another station instead of the original railway station. But do you know that to change the boarding station, you have to make changes in your ticket, otherwise you may face a penalty.
Boarding station can be converted into booked ticket
Sometimes suddenly there is a need to change the boarding station. For example, due to the boarding station being far away from the reach of the passenger, there is also the fear of missing the train. Therefore, if the train stops at the station close to the passenger’s reach, then the passenger can revise his boarding station. Keeping this need of the passengers in mind, IRCTC gives the facility to change the boarding station. This facility of IRCTC is for all those passengers who have booked train tickets online and not through travel agents or through Passenger Reservation System. Apart from this, change in boarding station cannot be done in PNRs of VIKALP option.
Changes to be made within 24 hours of train departure
Any passenger who wants to change his boarding station will have to make changes online 24 hours before the departure of the train. But according to the official website of IRCTC to the passengers, once the passenger changes his boarding station, then he cannot catch the train from the original boarding station. Remember that if a passenger catches a train from another station without changing the boarding station, he will have to pay penalty as well as the difference in fare between the boarding point and the revised boarding point. According to the rules of IRCTC- Change in the boarding station can be done only once, so whenever you make changes, be completely sure.
So let us now tell you how you can change the boarding station in the online ticket booked from IRCTC.
This is the easy way to change the boarding station
1. First of all you have to go to the official website of IRCTC https://www.irctc.co.in/nget/train-search .
2. Enter login and password and then go to ‘Booking Ticket History’
3. Select your train and go to ‘change boarding point’.
4. A new page will open, select the new boarding station for that train in the drop down
5. After selecting the new station the system will ask for confirmation. Click on OK
6. An SMS will be received on your mobile to change the boarding station
