The Railways on Thursday increased the advance reservation period from the present 30 days to 120 days for all special trains — 30 special Rajdhani type trains operating since May 12 and the 100 new pairs of special trains scheduled to run from June 1.
Booking of Parcel and luggage shall be permitted in all these 230 trains. The changes shall be implemented with effect from 08:00 hrs of train booking date of 31st May 2020 onwards, it said.
“Ministry of Railways has decided to increase the advance reservation period (ARP) of all Specials notified from 30 days to 120 days. Booking of parcel and luggage shall be permitted in all these 230 trains,” the Railways said in a statement.
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It said the other terms and conditions such as current booking, tatkal quota allocation of seats to roadside stations and others will be the same as in regular time tabled trains.