Most of you might be aware that a Waitlist (WL) ticket will get to RAC (Reservation against cancellation) before getting Confirmed (CNF). If there aren’t enough cancellations by other confirmed passengers, your ticket might be finalized at RAC status, which makes you eligible to travel, but only with a seat, not a berth. On the other hand, if the chart is prepared with your ticket status still in WL, your name will not appear in the chart and you cannot board the train.
Now, let’s say you book two train tickets (you and your friend) and after moving from, say, a waitlist of WL12 and WL13, your tickets are finalized at RAC 71.
On the final chart, you might find this as some RS8 71 (and another ticket too with same RS8 71), where R represents RAC, S8 represents the coach (this can be anything, S1, S2 and so on) and 71 the seat. Please note that only a single berth (with number 71) has been allotted to you and your friend and hence you do not get a berth each to sleep. You can adjust on a single berth though, if you can.
This is not so comfortable for many people and hence you will find people deciding not to travel with a RAC ticket. When it comes to canceling a RAC ticket, it is treated just like a W/L ticket and you will almost get the same (full) refund as when you cancel a W/L ticket.
Note: There are almost always people who decide not to travel at the last movement so if you have an RAC ticket, you can always ask the TTE if there are any unattended berths. After he assesses the total number of available berths, he provides them for RAC holders (he might ask you for a small tip, please don’t ask me if it is legal; I do not know).
Absolutely wrong, RS1 means extra coach. If you have RAC and in final chart it is shows RS1 63 means there is a additional sleeper class and its coach number is mentions like RS or RSL.
It is the truth. Don’t go for wrong knowledge.
Okay, then how is an RAC indicated in the final chart? I’ll be happy to correct if I’m wrong.
Also, when an additional sleeper coach is connected, by common sense, they add it either at the beginning or at the end of existing sleeper coaches right? Just a month back I had a RS5 31 ticket. It was a RAC, my coach number is S5 (there were S1 to S4 before and S6 to S8 after my coach) and seat number is 31. That train normally runs with 8 SL coaches. There wasn’t an additional coach that day and even if there was why would they want to put it bang in the middle disturbing the arrangement?
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Thank you. It should have been given in PNR STATUS itself
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