{"id":1297868,"date":"2025-07-19T08:57:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T03:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/?p=1297868"},"modified":"2025-07-19T08:57:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T03:27:53","slug":"tickets-for-selected-vande-bharat-trains-can-be-now-booked-15-mins-in-adavance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/tickets-for-selected-vande-bharat-trains-can-be-now-booked-15-mins-in-adavance\/","title":{"rendered":"Tickets For Selected Vande Bharat Trains Can Be Now Booked 15 Mins In Adavance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a major relief for last-minute travelers, <strong>Southern Railway has launched a \u2018current booking\u2019 system<\/strong> for Vande Bharat Express trains at en route stations. Starting <strong>July 17<\/strong>, passengers can now book available tickets up to <strong>15 minutes before the train\u2019s departure<\/strong> at stations along the route \u2014 a feature previously restricted only to the source station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Untitled-design-3-1-2-1280x720-1-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"Tickets For Selected Vande Bharat Trains Can Be Now Booked 15 Mins In Adavance \" class=\"wp-image-1297875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Untitled-design-3-1-2-1280x720-1-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Untitled-design-3-1-2-1280x720-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Untitled-design-3-1-2-1280x720-1-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Untitled-design-3-1-2-1280x720-1.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Applicable Trains:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Mangaluru Central\u2013Thiruvananthapuram Central (20631)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Thiruvananthapuram Central\u2013Mangaluru Central (20632)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Plus 6 other Vande Bharat Express trains under Southern Railway division<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Changed?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously, once a Vande Bharat train departed from its source station, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/current-booking-for-vande-bharat-up-to-15-minutes-before-departure\/article69828245.ece\">vacant seats couldn&#8217;t be booked at intermediate stations<\/a><\/strong>. Now, those empty seats are up for grabs till 15 minutes before departure from <strong>any en route station<\/strong>, helping boost train occupancy and offer more flexibility to passengers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why It Matters:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Enables <strong>spontaneous travel<\/strong> plans for busy commuters and tourists<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prevents <strong>wastage of vacant seats<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Makes Vande Bharat trains more <strong>passenger-friendly and efficient<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a <strong>pilot initiative<\/strong>, but if successful, it could be rolled out across more trains in India \u2014 transforming how passengers plan their rail journeys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major relief for last-minute travelers, Southern Railway has launched a \u2018current booking\u2019 system for Vande Bharat Express trains at en route stations. Starting July 17, passengers can now book available tickets up to 15 minutes before the train\u2019s departure at stations along the route \u2014 a feature previously restricted only to the source [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":1297875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1466],"class_list":["post-1297868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-vande-bharat"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tickets For Selected Vande Bharat Trains Can Be Now Booked 15 Mins In Adavance - Trak.in - Indian Business of Tech, Mobile &amp; Startups<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/tickets-for-selected-vande-bharat-trains-can-be-now-booked-15-mins-in-adavance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tickets For Selected Vande Bharat Trains Can Be Now Booked 15 Mins In Adavance - Trak.in - Indian Business of Tech, Mobile &amp; Startups\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a major relief for last-minute travelers, Southern Railway has launched a \u2018current booking\u2019 system for Vande Bharat Express trains at en route stations. 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