Rly’s reservation system to stay down for six hours this week

Rly’s reservation system to stay down for six hours this week

Somit.Sen@timesgroup.com

Mumbai:15.11.2021

Long distance trains which were affected due to the pandemic will restore its regular train numbers in the next few days as normalcy seems to be returning gradually, said officials.

Railways’ passenger reservation system (PRS), however, will be shut for six hours during lean business hours of the night for the next 7 days, said Central Railway chief spokesperson Shivaji Sutar.

“This is to enable upgradation of system data and updating of new train numbers. Since huge amount of past (old train numbers) and current passenger booking data are to be updated in all Mail/ Express trains, this is being planned in a series of carefully calibrated steps and implemented during night hours,” added Sutar The timings of system shut down will be from 11.30pm to 5.30am in order to minimise impact on ticketing services. Both Western and Central Railway will revert back to the original train numbers of pre-Covid times. During Covid, they ran special trains.