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Indian Railways has a very extensive network and it is one of the largest railways in the world. There are millions of passengers which uses the Indian Railways for travel on a daily basis. Railways to them are their life line. Since Indian railways are used by millions of people daily there is always a huge rush of booking the tickets and hence sometimes seats are allotted on a waiting list to the passengers.
It is not possible that every passenger gets a confirmed seat on the train and hence after the train capacity is full, then after the tickets are allotted with a Waiting List number. This waiting list gets confirmed only when a confirmed ticket passenger cancels his ticket. Passengers can know about train seats on many IRCTC seat availability sites like indianrail.gov.in
IRCTC website
With the advent of internet booking tickets and planning a railway travel has become very easy. All one is required to do is log onto the official website of Indian Railways and see the current reservation status. The best part is that through these sites all the classes i.e. AC 3 tiers, 2 tier and sleeper seats availability on different dates could be known.
To be able to use this website it is very important that the person knows about the station codes of its source station and destination station. After entering this information enquired Railway seat availability is displayed for the different trains on different dates. This is the most convenient way to plan the travel by train.