Please explain the following details, RAC,WL,RLWL,PQWL,General wait list?

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Jayaraman

RAC - Reservation against Cancellation-

The expansion of the abbriviations given by you are -

RAC - Reservation against Cancellation

WL - Wait list

RLWL - Remote location wait list

PQWL - Pool Qouta wait list

General Wait List and WL are one and the same. -

Rrrahul

RAC - Reservation against Cancellation

WL - Wait list

RLWL - Remote location wait list

PQWL - Pool Qouta wait list

railtraction

RAC or Reservation Against Cancellations

The person who holds a RAC status ticket will move to being Confirmed Status only when there are cancellations from
the earlier confirmed bookings.

W/L or Wait Listed

The person who holds a WL status ticket will move to being RAC when there are cancellations from either the Confirmed or RAC ticket holders, apart from the WL category itself

Its Generally noticed that RAC passengers are allocated the
Side Berths on a coach

Remote Location Quota is based at any of the important stations enroute and it provides for the passengers between the originating station and terminating station. Incase this Quota is less, there will be RAC after Confirmed seats are exhausted and RLWL starts after this

airvin93

All the explanations in other answers are right. A small look at the back ground. In Railways advance reservations are permitted for journeys in all classes on first come first served basis. All those who can be given confirmed accommodation are given the same on that basis. After this RAC list is prepared which means that you will get confirmed accommodations against the cancellation of previously reserved ticket/s. In a sleeper class coach where there are 72 berths, 63 berths are allotted as confirmed accomodation as described. Remaining 9 berths are allotted for 18 RAC passengers. Once you have RAC status you are assured of one seat in the reserved coach. (18 seats made by folding the side lower berth).

After allotting the RAC, if further demand for reservation is available, such passengers are given WL status. The waitlisted passengers get upgraded to RAC and confirmed status in case of cancellations of reserved accommodations. The waitlisted passengers are not given any seat in the reserved coaches and they can cancel their ticket and purchase a general un reserved ticket (at a lower cost) to continue their journey.

RLWL and PQWL are best described in the previous answers. PQWL is given normally for short distance and is unlikely to get confirmed (unless there is an available berth fully vacant or which can be linked to the entire route of the train).

RLWL is maintained in a separate priority and is more likely to get upgraded depending on cancellations.

captain

U CAN CHECK AT THE BACK OF THE RAILWAY TICKET

Charu Chandra Goel

all are railway terms

RAC : Reservation against Confomation
WL : Waiting list
RLWL : Remote Location WL.
PQWL : Pool Quota WL

kbn_25

RAC : Reservation available on cancellation.
WL : Waiting list.
Rest others won't know. You may visit Southern Railway web site to know.

Jargon

all answers are right.... in any case visit wwwindianrail.gov.in and www.irctc.co.in for more details

http://rahul.org.in

koushik m

RAC stand for Reservation against cancellation.
If you have an RAC ticket, Your ticket will only get confirmed if someone having a confirmed ticket cancells that.

WL stand for waiting list.

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