moment of pride – ticket booking throught IRCTC

Case: Ticket Booking for diwali, Need train ticket for 3rd november, 2010 and ticket are available from today aka 5th August, 2010.

Train: Aravali Express 9707

Situation:

• At 0800 Hrs – Booking is not allowed IRCTC says you can book ticket after 8 AM, may be my watch is fast. Hold On you Breath…

• At 0805 Hrs – Oh!! its showing the seats available total seats avail is around 400.I am ready with Quick Book Facility. Fast.Fast..Fast…

• At 0807 Hrs – Clicked on quick book and payment is done. Good.Good..Good…

• At 0808 Hrs – Payment is success fully done, and WTF it shows the error page from IRCTC. Prayed to GOD. Shit.Shit..Shit…

• At 0809 Hrs – OMG!! Tickets are booked, thanks to Lord. Got only UB and SU. OMG.OMG..OMG…

• At 0810 Hrs – WTF! Just checking the further status. The ticket status is now WL 156. Oh!Oh!!Oh!!!

• At 0815 Hrs – Service Unavailable.

Tickets are booked. Its like moment of pride.

Happy Journey.

obsarvation at borivali station – railfanning

A railfan, railway enthusiast or railway buff is a person interested in an amateur capacity in rail transport.

Though I love planes too but rail fanning is another adventure.

At 2100 hrs I was at borivali station BVI.

• 2104 IST WCAM – 2 Shatabdi Express ahmedabad mumbai. at PF 5
• 2121 IST WCAM #21818 Ahmedabad – Dhanu Road. PF5
• 2130 IST 9005 BCT-OKAH ( Mumbai Central – Okha ) at PF 4
• 2140 IST WCAM #21816 Bandra Jaipur Aravali Expresee 9707 at PF 6

So you know what this WCAM means. This is the indian railway engine code.

WCAM
W – A loco which run on broad guage.
CA – Electric loco ( AC/DC ) which run on both AC/DC
M – Loco used for both passenger and goods trains.

So thats why its WCAM model. So next time if you see any engine which says WCAM then you will also get the same idea.

Now a days I am learning more about rail stuffs. I will update soon as I will learn any thing more on same.

Happy Railfanning.