Why does IRCTC not book train tickets from 11.45 to 12.30 at night, know the reason

IRCTC Ticket Booking Timing: If you travel in sleeper or AC coach in train then you have to make reservation. If you do Tatkal Ticket Booking, then you have to do it between 10 am to 12 noon, whereas you can book normal general tickets at any time of the day. But do you know that there are 45 minutes in the middle of 24 hours when the Railways does not do any kind of ticket booking (Train Ticket Booking Timing). Yes, Indian Railways does not book tickets from 11.45 to 12.30 in the night. Do you know the reason?

Let us tell you that the railways used to book tickets only till 11.30 am. Means ticket booking was not done for 1 hour. But in view of the inconvenience of the passengers, the Railways has reduced the deadline for not booking tickets. Passengers can now book tickets only till 11.45 am. Let us tell you why Indian Railways does not book tickets for 45 minutes at night.

Due to this reason train booking is not done

The biggest reason why railway does not book tickets from 11.45 am to 12.30 am is related to the server. Railway repairs its server at this time and this is the main reason that many works including status checking, ticket booking, PNR checking are completely stopped at this time.

The IRCTC website of Indian Railways handles 7 to 8 lakh ticket bookings every day. Indian Railways is the second largest rail network in the world. The work of shifting such number of ticket bookings and taking data to another database is done from 11.45 in the night till 12.30 in the morning. A duplicate copy of the ticket is also created so that in case of any data loss, things remain intact.

Transaction may fail

If ticket booking is done even at the time of shifting of data, then there may be loss of ticket booking data and also the scope of transaction failure is very high. Because of this, the railway does not do any kind of booking till 45 minutes at night. In these 45 minutes, all the new information related to the train is also updated in the window.

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