Reserved tickets issued for train that doesn’t stop here
Next time you get a berth reserved in a train be sure it stops at the Junction station here. Else you may get a shock which you had never experienced before.
Yes, the authorities might tell you that the train for which you brought the ticket had no stoppage here.
So, if it is that, why the railways at all sell tickets that too for a confirmed berth in a train which has no stoppage in the city? But this has happened and, if sources are correct, this goof up keeps happening.
For NK Agrawal, a noted astrologer of the city, who was recently felicitated by the UP Governor at the Raj Bhawan for his unique ability to carry out correct calculations and forecasts of a horoscope despite the big handicap of his blindness, February 8, 2007 came as a shock which he finds hard to forget.
He had got six AC 3 berths reserved in train No 2368 Vikramsheela Express for Patna on February 8. When he rang up the railway inquiry around ten in the night to know whether the train was late or on time, he was in for a shock. The person answering the call told him that the train had no stoppage in the city.
Then why were the berths confirmed from here, asked Agrawal. But the railwayman did not respond.
A request for DF- could you please insert a dateline at the start of the news item telling us busy members who don’t have time to check out the link where this story originated from?
If I understand it correctly, the Indian National Railways has a bad habit of selling tickets for trains that don’t stop at the station where the customers are buying the tickets. Imagine standing on the platform, ticket in hand, and the express you have a ticket to ride just blows through the station at speed. [#oops][banghead][censored]
I would say it was the opposite. Not only did the railroad sell a blind man and his family extra-fare tickets for a train he could not board, when they graciously “let” them use the same tickets on a coach train, the on-board staff charged him for the upgrade, again. Then he didn’t recieve the bedroom he had paid for in the first place. (twice even)
Seriously, this brings to mind accounts I have read about air travel inside India. One flight a week and, on the day you’re ticketed and expecting to go, the run is canceled with no warning and no explanation. Wait seven days and maybe you’ll get out.
India is probably a fascinating place to see, but don’t go there on a tight travel schedule!
I was just thinking yesterday how useful it might be if I were to clearly indicate the source (paper name and locality) at the beginning of each article.