Train waitlist

I received my tickets for a journey this weekend, and on it it says "RLWL/22 RLWL/20".

Now I know it is waitlisted, and at WL20 should be fine (in fact using the PNR enquiry on http://www.indianrail.gov.in/pnr_stat.html shows its now down to 18), but I'm sure that previous waitlisted tickets just said for example "WL/22 WL/20". I could be wrong but what does this RL part of the code stand for?

If you check your PNR status on the https://www.irctc.co.in web site it defines:

RAC - Reservation Against Cancellation
WL - Wait List
RLWL - Remote Location Wait List
PQWL - Pooled Quota Wait List
REGRET/WL1 - No More Booking Permitted

which probably means that it is a "higher number" on the waitlist....but at least the list is moving....

I guess the answer is in here somewhere:

(from http://irfca.org/faq/faq-travel.html )


Tickets on the Wait List ('WL') are not even guaranteed such sitting accommodation, and are entirely unconfirmed at the time of issue. Seating or sleeping accommodation will be available only if enough other persons with reservations cancel their tickets. On some popular routes, high wait-list numbers in the hundreds are not unusual, and holders of such tickets may still end up with reserved accommodation by the day of the journey since there is a lot of flux as people cancel and re-arrange their trips.

Most waitlisted tickets are issued by the originating station of a route. Stations close to the originating station may also share the same wait list (e.g., Chennai Egmore, Mambalam, Tambaram, Chengalput all share wait lists and reservation quotas with Chennai Central).

Smaller stations that do not participate in the networked computerized reservation system issue tickets from specific quotas, and these quotas can themselves have wait lists. A pooled quota waiting list is shared by several small stations in a particular region (e.g., Tiruppur, Salem, etc., share in the quota and wait list for some trains originating from Trivandrum or Mangalore); a running line waiting list or road-side waiting list applies to the quota of a specific intermediate ticketing station on a route (e.g., Solapur has a quota on the Mumbai - Chennai mail). For road-side station quotas, berths or seats are booked by the originating station for journeys up to the road-side station and distance restrictions may not apply. If berths or seats are redefined from a remote location, then booking can be done beyond the road-side station, within the limits for the remote location's quota. In no case, however, will through passengers be booked on multiple quotas, e.g., partway on the general quota of the originating station and the rest of the journey on a remote location quota.

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