Which Indian trains have shorter booking period?

1/15/2012 4:56:59 PM

According to the Indian Railways site

Advance reservations are made generally up to 90 days in advance for all classes and all trains. The period of advance reservation (ARP) is exclusive of the day of departure of the train.

At intermediate stations where the train arrives on the following day,
such reservations can be done 91 days in advance of date of
journey from the intermediate station. ARP is in relation to the date
of journey from train originating station. In case of some Inter-city
day trains, the ARP is less.

You can get a partial list (though not official) of Inter city trains from Wiki

1/15/2012 4:52:53 PM

From Seat61:

Indian long-distance trains open for bookings 90 days before
departure. Some shorter-distance inter-city trains open less than 90
days ahead, for example Delhi-Kalka & Kalka-Simla generally open 30
days ahead.

There may not be a hard rule which trains fall into the 90 or 30 day category. If you are interested in a particular train, you can try to book it online 60 days in the future and see whether you can book it. You can try cleartrip or the official Indian railway site

Interestingly enough cleartrip allows me to book ‘Delhi to Kalka’ in April 2012 (88 days from now), so the 30 days mentioned above may no longer be correct.

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