Indian Railways has developed a number of systems with the passage of time, and due to such systems only, these days to travel with Indian railway has been made easier. The confirmation of ticket, online booking, checking the ticket, food parcel availability, tracking the train status, etc. are some of the known features of railway these days.

The majority of all these systems is accessible on the website of the railway or a smartphone with the help of different applications. To book the ticket, there are systems of booking developed by the department in the form of applications and website. One needs to offer different information while going for the booking. One needs to provide name, contact details, age and a few other details. But there are a few passengers who want to use this system, but in the case of trouble, they need someone to guide. One such critical issue is to change boarding point online after train booking. The main important point is the destination and boarding stations. But what if one has made any mistake and wanted to rectify the error. Well, in that case, there is also a solution, but one needs to follow certain processes. The process, if followed thoroughly, easy to make the changes.

The process:

The process to change the boarding point is simple. One needs to login the website of the IRCTC and checks the section of “Booked Ticket History.” Here one can see various tickets that are booked from this ID. One can also see the ticket booked where he needs to change the boarding point. One needs to click on that ticket, and there will be an option of change the boarding point. One can see different station names in the drop down and can select another boarding point option from the list. Once it is selected, one can save the change, and there will be a message acknowledging the changes made. Here one must note that these changes can be made for the tickets which are booked online only and not from the reservation counter. The change can take around twenty-four hours to reflect. However, it can be seen in the chart only before the four hours of the journey.

The change:

The change in the boarding point cannot be seen on the latest printout of the ticket also, and it will show the old boarding point only. One must check the same in the ticket history which is considered as valid and at the time of final boarding it is seen in the chart as well.

In the case of a passenger who needs to change the boarding point due to any reason this service proves much helpful and it is also simple that one can do it by self also. The change in boarding point can be done on the website as well as the application of the IRCTC on any smartphone. The change of boarding point confirmed with the system is also acknowledged by the department via an SMS as well as an email to the user.