Now Book Rail Tickets Through SMS, See How

In regards to ease the rail ticket booking, Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has launched SMS ticket booking for rail passengers. There are two dedicated numbers for SMS ticket booking - 139 and 5676714.

As to make ticket booking easier, IRCTC launched this service which can be used by everyone who own a mobile phone (internet enabled or not). All they have to do is send the details of booking through a SMS and then send a SMS for payment and it’s done. Let’s see how you can book a ticket through SMS –

*For SMS ticket booking through number 139, you need to register your mobile with IRCTC and your bank (over 25 banks are associated with this). Banks will provide MMID or Mobile Money Identifier and OTP (One Time Password) to each user.

*For SMS ticket booking through number 5676714, you need to register your mobile number with IRCTC and m-wallet (mobile wallet – which is available in most of the banks and mobile operators).

Use this format for SMS ticket booking through 139 –

BOOK [TrainNo][FromStn.Code][ToStn.Code] [TravelDate (DDMM)][Class][Passenger-Name][Age][M/F]

For example, if you want to go from Bhubaneswar (BBS) to Howrah (HWH) in Puri - Howrah Shatabdi Express (no. 12278) on 2 August 2013, 

then you need to type in – BOOK 12278 BBS HWH 0208 SL Rahul Ghosla 25 M. It’s the same way you’re inquiring about ticket fare through SMS.

After the message is sent, you’ll receive the transaction ID and other details. Then you need to pay using your MMID and OTP.

Send this to 139 - PAY [Transaction ID as received in SMS][Your MMID as received from the bank][OTP received from bank][IRCTC UserID].

Use this format for SMS ticket booking through 5676714 –

Send this to 5676714, START [irctc user Id]. Now send this,

BOOK [From stn.code],[to stn.code],[DDMMYY], [Trainno],[Class],[passenger name],[age],[M/F]

As soon as you get the transaction ID and other details, Send this SMS,

PAY [transaction no], MPAY, [m-PIN]; where m-PIN is your mobile wallet PIN or you can send this too PAY [mobileno],[mmid],[amount],[transaction Id],[OTP]

Once done, you’ll get the ticket booking confirmation SMS.

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India Now has the World’s Highest Rail Bridge

Indian Railways made history by running train through the Asia’s second largest tunnel. The next man-made wonder, the world’s highest rail bridge built across Chenab river bed in Resai district of Jammu and Kashmir is expected to take three more years of time to be functional.


The construction of the bridge was started in the year 2002 when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the prime minister.

The bridge is five times more than Delhi’s Qutub minar and far higher than the Eiffel Tower in Paris, will be completed by December 2016, railway officials say.


With this arch bridge Baramulla will be connected to Jammu via Udhampur-Katra-Qazigund, and will take six and half hours time to travel.

At present it takes thirteen hours of time to reach Jammu from Baramulla. When the project was announced to be unsafe, it got stopped in 2008. However, the construction resumed in 2010 and now it is declared as national project.

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