Booking tickets from IRCTC is the most hectic process for every Indian passenger who wants to travel through Trains. Because IRCTC is the only official website to book train tickets in India, that’s why it takes much time to book a train ticket. This will be double while booking tatkal tickets because most of the people book tickets suddenly by using tatkal scheme. IRCTC website have 12 million unique visitors per month and most of the people will be on website between 10AM to 12 PM. Because it is the time to book tatkal tickets online, actually most of the tickets sold within one hour.
Straight to the point here I mention few useful methods and some important tips to increase the chances of getting tatkal tickets before site getting down.
Magic Auto fill:
Magic Auto fill is a bookmarklet created by Amit Agarwal, founder of
www.labnol.org website. This tool will be a handy thing to book tatkal tickets quickly. Actually this tool doesn’t book tickets but it helps you to complete the booking process lesser than before. Check here how it works.
1. First go to this website
www.ctrlq.org/irctc and click on “fill reservation form” button and fill all details which are necessary while booking a ticket on irctc website.
2. By using this form you can book tickets for 6 adult passengers and 2 child passengers. Once you fill all the details, enter your mobile number at the end of form.
3. Now click on
“I’m Feeling Lucky” button and you will get magic auto fill bookmarklet. Drag it into your browser bookmarks tab.
4. Now open IRCTC website and navigate to booking section, click on magic autofill bookmarklet to complete ticket booking.
(Here you need to do things quickly because you’ll miss tickets in seconds of time).
User Agent Switcher:
As the name suggests user agent switcher changes the user agent of
browser into desired format. Here we use this for tatkal ticket booking.
This extension available for both chrome and Firefox browsers.
1. First of all you need to download user agent switcher extension from the below link and install it on your chrome browser.
Download User Agent Switcher
2. Once installed it will be placed beside the wrench menu of chrome
browser. Click on that icon and change the user agent to any mobile
platform. Here I use android mobile user agent.
3. Logic is simple, we have speed internet connection but it doesn’t
work with IRCTC website. So we browse the same website through mobile
platform to book tickets quickly.
4. Here we browse IRCTC website in mobile platform with pc internet connection
.
I don’t guarantee about this method because it have 50-50 chance but you will give it a try.
Tips to Book Tatkal Tickets Quickly Online:
- The main thing we consider while booking tickets from IRCTC website
is you need to keep page active otherwise it shows a message session
expired. So to prevent from these things you need to do some quick
operations while perform ticket booking.
- To keep session alive for long time you need to do one tricky thing that is copy the link from IRCTC website General Section and select “Terms and Conditions”
and paste the link on another browser. For example if your book tickets
on chrome then open the below link on Firefox browser and refresh that
page for every 2 or 3 minutes.
- Note down each and every information which are necessary while
booking tatkal tickets. Noting down on paper is a time taken thing so
you can take help of auto form filling add-ons and extensions from both
browsers.
Note:
While booking tatkal tickets from
slow internet connection is
not possible in future days also, even it is also a time taking process
in fast internet connection too. So follow the above tips to book
tickets from IRCTC website.
