Travel by train in India? Plan you're journey way in advance! Trains are overbooked in India. Each train is fully booked, months in advance of departure. Even though the trains are endlessly long and every year loads of new coaches are added, there is never a single seat open. Maybe you have seen those indian trains where everyone is hanging out? This is probably the general class coach. On this coach the people who where not able to reserve a seat are occupied. There is no limit to the number of general bookings so imagine how full it can become. Most probably those people tried to use the emergency booking system which is a booking system for people who travel last minute. Tickets are limited and once all emergency seats are gone you come on a reservation list. This means that when there is a last minute cancelation you can get a seat. The chance that you get tickets for a journey is therefore small if you don't know the right people. It is possible to bribe conductors through agencies who know them.
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