IRCTC INDIAN RAILWAY ONLINE BOOKING

Lots of people do not know how to book a ticket online of Indian railways trains. Here are some help full tips and guide for booking a train ticket online. First you have to register yourself at http://www.irctc.co.in/ which is free and few seconds it takes. while filling the register form you must give office/residence address correctly as the ticket Will be delivered at the same address and you can choose the address while booking so you do not have to type the address again you can just choose the home or office address for ticket to be delivered. before log in to the page you keep your itinerary ready with you with the help of http://erail.in/ where you can search your train and number and seat availability on the particular day with station code which is very important.
you must have a id card and credit/debit or cash card to book your ticket online. Irctc server is very busy always so you have to fill the data very fast and get the ticket quickly. you should not refresh or click on the back page at any point at irctc web pages. if you do so you have to log in again and do all work again so never try to refresh and click on the back page in your browser.
follow this steps for a quick booking
keep handy the station code of from/to station
train number
date of journey
class of train (for example sleeper or 3 a/c)
boarding point (station code )
reservation up to point (station code)
the above steps you can do with the help of http://erail.in/now log in to http://www.irctc.co.in/ after log in you can see passenger travel list in left panel of the screen
now create a passenger travel list before going for booking
choose create new in the first column and then give a name to this list and give a description of the list ( remember no passenger name in this window) and then click on add passenger a new window will open and fill all detail of each passenger and click on add every time you fill detail of a passenger give detail of maximum 6 passenger in a list if you have more then 6 passenger then create one more list and then give the name of other passenger in the other list.
keep the id card (if you are choosing e.ticket) and credit/debit/cash card in hand
you will need credit/debit card number, expiry date of the card, the last 3 code of the card after the 16 digit number and name as in the card in some of the bank secure payment gateway and in some bank secure payment gateway they are asking your user and password also which has been provided by your bank and some bank also ask for the date of birth also some bank ask the secret question and answer you have fill in your bank data. so keep all this data handy to fill quickly. remember do not keep page open for long time if you do so it will show time out and you have to log in again and do all thing from start so be fast and keep everything with you . If you are booking from a public computer always give no whenever you have been asked to save the password in browser.
now you choose quick booking from the left panel and fill the data in the new open window and click on the quick book at the end of page.and a new window will show all the data which you filled with the all detail now click make payment .
A new window will ask you to choose the bank for payment choose your bank and fill the card detail as asked there and then click on make payment here you should not refresh or back click the page it may take 2 to 3 minutes also wait for the next window which will show detail of your transaction whether you ticket has been booked or not.
if it has been booked then it will show transaction id and pnr number and the passenger name and berth allotted and you can save this page or print the ticket . if the transaction is failed then also it will show the transaction number id if the payment has been credited from your card and it because of network problem your ticket has been not booked .
Now you can check with the booked history in left panel of the home page. some time the amount may credit from your a/c but the ticket have not been booked .if this happen your amount will again debit to your card within 24 hours and you will get the mail also with detail transaction id and time of debit of amount in your card.
you will get immediate email from irctc as soon as a transaction done you can check all detail in the mail.
so remember to give your original email while registering
try to book in the early morning or late night (IST time) when the load on the server will be minimum

I hope this information will be helpful for booking online ticket at irctc.