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Real-Time Rail: Vande Bharat’s Booking Upgrade Makes Spontaneous Trips Possible


Updated: July 22, 2025 09:46

Image Source : The week
In a big relief for passengers and seat usage, Southern Railway has introduced a realtime booking facility for eight Vande Bharat Express trains. From July 17, passengers are able to book vacant seats from middle stations as long as 15 minutes prior to the scheduled departure of the train from those stations.
 
Key Takeaways:
  • Earlier, bookings were restricted once the train arrived at the terminal station,
  • Empty seats from cancellations or noshows frequently remained unfilled
  • The new system frees up these seats for enroute station boarding passengers
Relevant Routes
  • Mangaluru Central–Thiruvananthapuram Central
  • Thiruvananthapuram Central–Mangaluru Central
  • Chennai Egmore–Nagercoil and back
  • Coimbatore–Bengaluru Cantonment
  • Mangaluru Central–Madgaon
  • Madurai–Bengaluru Cantonment
  • Dr MGR Chennai Central–Vijayawada
Passenger Benefits:
  • Enables spontaneous travel bookings for tourists and commuters
  • Best applied to planned shutdowns in small towns and secondary cities
  • Reduces wastage of seats and increases occupancy on highspeed trains
Booking Channels:
  • Available at station reservation counters
  • Virtual spaces to mirror actual seat availability
Expectation:
Railway officials view this as a pilot program that is easily replicable throughout the nation, enabling impulse travel and maximizing train capacity on India's highspeed network.
 
Source: The Hans India, UNI India, Mathrubhumi

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