Railways’ reservation system to be shut down for six hours till Nov 21

As part of Indian Railways’ efforts to normalise passenger services in a phased manner to the pre-Covid levels of service, the Railways Passenger Reservation System (PRS) will be shut down for six hours during the lean business hours of the night for next seven days.

This is to enable upgradation of the system data, updating of new train numbers among other things. The activity will be performed starting from the intervening night of November 14 and 15 to the night of November 20 and 21.

During these hours, no ticket reservation, current booking, cancellation, enquiry services etc will be available. Railway personnel will ensure the advance charting for the trains to start during the affected timings.

Except for the PRS services, all other enquiry services including 139 services will continue uninterrupted, said the release from the railways.

Now, the train numbers now will not start with zero, as was in case of special trains. The process of conversion of special train numbers to regular train numbers has already been started by CRIS and is expected to be completed within the next seven days.