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 How to book tatkal ticket faster.....???        

IRCTC is the online train ticket booking website managed by Indian railways, IRCTC is an official website of Indian railways to book tickets online. Anyone can simply create their account on IRCTC for free and book his/her train ticket by doing E-Transaction (By Debit, Credit card and Net Banking).

There are only 20 Rs extra charges on online booking, after booking the ticket you will get the E-ticket on your email id and also you will get your ticket on your registered mobile via sms, so you don’t need to carry a print out of your booked ticket.
Now we are coming to the topic, if you are here, then surely you are the registered user of IRCTC website and trying to book tickets online, we all know that IRCTC website goes down on Tatkal ticket booking, because there are thousands of people trying to book tickets online on the timing of Tatkal booking which is 10 to 12 in the morning.

If you are going to book Tatkal ticket, then surely you are in a hurry and want to book tickets for the next day, but when you are trying to book a Tatkal ticket you found that IRCTC website is not opening, it takes lots of time to open and by chance if website is opened then it got hanged on time of payment, we generally face this problem when we want to book a Tatkal ticket online.

For the solution of this problem we are going to show you one easiest way to book Tatkal tickets on IRCTC faster.

Ways to Book IRCTC Tatkal Ticket Faster:

(A).Install Auto Refresh Plugin:

It is common that when we want to book online Tatkal ticket on IRCTC we log in IRCTC account before 10 AM, but when Tatkal booking starts, we click on IRCTC site, it shows session expired, It means you need to login again but now it’s very hard to Login during Tatkal timing.

IRCTC generally Logs out your account if you are not using it from last 3 minutes, So if you want to book tickets you have logged into your account before 10 AM and for the solution of “Session Expire Error” we will show you the fantastic way.

There is one plugin available named “Auto Refresh” on Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox both web browser. This plugin refreshes your web pages automatically according to your given time period. Follow the below steps to install the Auto Refresh Plugin

For Google Chrome Browser

1) Open your browser

2) Go to the link to install the Auto Refresh Plugin:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/auto-refresh- plus/oilipfekkmncanaajkapbpancpelijih?hl=en

3) Now install the plugin by clicking on Add button (+FREE)

4) After that plugin will install automatically

5) Now when you open the IRCTC website, you will see the one icon on address bar

6) Simply click on that icon and set the auto refresh time (In seconds) and click on start

For Mozilla Firefox Browser

1) Open your browser

2) Go to the link to install the Auto Refresh Plugin:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-refresh/

3) Now install the plugin by clicking on Add button

4) After that plugin will install automatically

5) Now when you open the IRCTC website

6) Press right click, you will see one option “Auto Refresh”

7) Select it and set the time

(B). Use Magic Auto Fill for IRCTC

When you are booking a Tatkal ticket on peak hours, then you have very less time to book tickets because Tatkal tickets are booked very fast and after that waiting list occurs, so for this you have to do the Tatkal ticket booking process very fast, for this you have to fill the passenger list very fast and it is possible that in the hurry you make any mistake in entering the data of passengers, For this we are showing you the mind blowing tricks.

1) Go to the Magic Submitter website ( http://ctrlq.org/IRCTC )

2) Now you will see the passenger form detail which you have to fill in time of booking

3) Simply fill the form of passenger

4) After filling the form, click on “I’m feeling lucky” button

5) Drag MAGIC AUTOFILL to your bookmarks bar, so that you can easily use it.

Some doubts and solutions:

Which browser?

IRCTC recommends IE 6 and above. It’s always better to user modern browser for faster response. Some scripts written in IRCTC don’t perform well in Google Chrome. In Mozilla Firefox IRCTC site runs well. So go for Firefox.

When to login?

Tatkal ticket booking starts from 10 AM. Some people logged into it from 9:30 AM and try to click here and there to keep the session active. This is useless. You are wasting your 30 min valuable time. I have observed at 10 O’clock “my session” is always timed out or 503 service unavailable error comes. May be they clear all the session at 10 or restart the system. So it is always better try to start login at 9:58 AM. It may take time but you will be able to login within 5 min.
Or
Go with auto refresh option but stop autorefresh 5 minutes before tatkal time i.e 9:55 am.

Plan my travel:

Keep you station code handy. You can find the station code from
http://www.indianrail.gov.in/stn_Code.html
Don’t wait for train name suggestion. Train name comes by AJAX call. That time server load is very high and it will take time to fetch train name. Don’t waste time. Just type from and to station code, select date, select quota as tatkal and click find train.

Select train seat:

IRCTC renovate there train list screen. The best thing is they listed the trains in a new domain – jp.IRCTC.co.in (not sure but may be in new server also). This split the traffic and makes the whole thing little faster. Most of the people logged in to IRCTC to check ticket availability of train only. There are some very good site like indiarailinfo.com to check train and ticket availability. Click on the required ticket (class name of the corresponding train) and click Book now.

Captcha trouble:

Sometimes this problem occurs at time of high load. Captcha doesn’t load. Don’t be panic. The Captcha is loaded by AJAX. Since there is high load on server it will take some time to load the image. Multiple time reload image button click may make the process delay. Just stay calm and wait for the Captcha. If it is taking long time you can click once on reload image. After entering image text click Go.

Payment:

After confirming the details, click Make Payment. We prefer Internet Banking. We don’t want to advertise any bank but our personal experience is better with ICICI bank. Even sometimes you will observe, there is an extra step in ICICI net banking, fill the grid from debit card. In case of IRCTC payment they don’t ask for the grid which makes the process faster.

Service Unavailable – Error 503:

Don’t restart the process if Service is Unavailable – Error 503 comes. Just refresh the page (F5) until session timeout. All data remains there in the session. It will continue the process when service is back. It happens in many cases. After payment service unavailable message comes. You refresh the page multiple times then the payment will be accepted and you will get your ticket.

Act smart and win the battle.

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Thank you.

Happy Computing.