Railways to restart counter ticket bookings, run more trains soon

500,000 tickets booked in three hours for 200 trains starting on June 1

In a big relief to passengers, the Indian Railways is set to open around 170,000 common service centres by Friday and railway station ticket counters in the next two-three days.

This comes at a time when ticket bookings for 200 non-air conditioned (AC) trains (will be operational from June 1) started on Thursday.

In a span of two and a half hours since bookings started, around 400,000 tickets were sold, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said on Thursday.

Bookings for 200 trains started at 10 am, except ones running to the East and Northeastern parts of the country wrecked by Cyclone Amphan.