Post your waitlist questions here ONLY

##Please try www.cleartrip.com (or) www.makemytrip.com

thanks for the reply..
i checked both the sites..these are showing
Booking is temporarily closed because Indian Railways is down for maintenance.
if there is any guess to when the irctc will get speed up, please tell me..

##The PRS, namely, the Passenger Reservation System of Indian Railways, WILL NEVER be shut down for "maintenance" on a working day.

##Normally, this will be done on a Sunday (**certainly NOT EVERY SUNDAY), between 23.30 hrs. and 5.30hrs. When they do this, a Press Release will also be issued.

##By the way, who gave you the information that "Indian Railways is down for maintenance."? Whoever has done it, they gave you very very wrong information.

##The site could be slow because of pressure from the customers. Perhaps, everybody must be desperately trying for a ticket for departure on 12th and 15th.:-)

##I booked my ticket about 60 days ago for departure ex.Pune on 15th August, 2011 by 17031 in 3AC . I am still at RLWL.1!!

Thanks for the information..
now also i tried the irctc site still not opening..
any way i will try to book after some time..

##For which date? By any chance is it for 30th August (or) 30th September (or) 21st October?

i am planning to move from bangalore to kakinada on 3rd september.
for the sheshadri train.
49 tikects are there but i am little bit tensed whether i will get lower berth or not.

##You have not mentioned the class. However, please take a look at this:
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17209 SESHADRI EXPRES 3-9-2011 BANGALORE CY JN KAKINADA TOWN GENERAL
S.No. Date (DD-MM-YYYY) Class - 2A Class -3A
1 3- 9-2011 AVAILABLE 8 AVAILABLE 24
.............................. ..........
17209 SESHADRI EXPRES 3-9-2011 BANGALORE CY JN KAKINADA TOWN GENERAL
S.No. Date (DD-MM-YYYY) Class - SL Class -3A
1 3- 9-2011 AVAILABLE 47 AVAILABLE 24
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##I am afraid you wanted to travel in Sleeper Class, in which only 47 Berths are available. Most probably, you may NOT get LB.

##But, if the passenger happens to be female and her age is 45+ (or) if the passenger happens to be a Female Senior Citrizen (or) Male Senior Citizen AND if they are travelling alone, then 3 berths are available in Lower Berth Quota:
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17209 SESHADRI EXPRES 3-9-2011 BANGALORE CY JN KAKINADA TOWN Lower Berth Quota
S.No. Date (DD-MM-YYYY) Class - SL Class -3A
1 3- 9-2011 AVAILABLE 3 NOT AVAILABLE
.............................. ........

##I am afraid you wanted to travel in Sleeper Class, in which only 47 Berths are available. Most probably, you may NOT get LB.[/QUOTE]

thank you so much..
always you are providing me the valuable inforamtion ,which i can relaxed from confustions..

Kindly note the last line of my earlier post.
"PS:- I have described how GN+PQ works. It can take place vice versa also."

In the past, before you had taken some days off, I had the opoprtunity to provide you with some sample PNR's which had multiple quota permutations and combinations. We had an extensive discussion on how passengers booking from start-end are allotted against PQ. However, if you remember correctly, I had stated clearly that such situation arises only when number of passengers against a PNR are more than one.
Since the query of the OP was regarding mainly how PQ and PQWL works, I avoided the discussion which you have so graciously explained.

PS:- Both situation takes place in IR (What I have stated and what you have stated). For reference, kindly have a glance at the past PNR examples, if you can.

Correct. This is what has happened in case of OP.

Again correct. Take the case of OP. For example, if we consider that PQWL was already running at PQWL 5. However berths were available against the earmarked quota from where he wanted to travel. In this case, the OP would be issued the confirmed berths and then he would straightaway jump to PQWL 5 and onwards.

Just confirms to the example, I provided above.

I am sorry to say, such situations does not happens. As you might be aware, there was a time when I had dealt with a number of PNR's. Never have I seen such situation arising.

##The chances for confirmation are remote for the reason given by you - Diwali!!!

##Please check SL Class (or) ex.KYN in any other train.

(OR)

##Delay your departure by one day and attempt booking for Sunday, 23rd departure, because Deepavali is on Wednesday, 26th.

Even though the chance of confirmation is quite good, but I would still advise you to book 2 tatkal tickets for the WL'ed passengers. After successful booking, you can cancel the WL'ed passengers.

##I am aware of this; hence, I said the chances are very remote, But there is a possibility. You cannot rule out it's possibility completely, though you or I MUST NOT have seen it!!!

This train often sees extra 3AC Coach attached to it.
To me, this should land up in RAC.
However, do consider alternatives.
PS:- Kindly check this.
http://bit.ly/nFNSGP
Nandigram Express shows RAC Status.
If you purchase a RAC Ticket now, it would stay back at RAC. (Nandigram has less chances of confirmation, but this would atleast guarantee you a seat)

Yes, anything can happen during charting. So speculating some of them would be an understatement!