Many people have shared the sad story of trains being overcrowded with non-reserved passengers during the holidays.Some people are unable to even board the train due to congestion. train.
Abhas Kumar Shrivastava (@abhas_rewcie), a resident of Bihar, shared a similar thing on He said he had to stand the entire time.
Shrivastava said it was an intercity train. Orissa. He reserved his seat four days in advance and got a confirmed ticket. However, once he boarded the train, he realized that he could not even reach his seat. An hour later, he managed to get a seat, but a pregnant woman was occupying his seat, so he just left and stood in front of the gate for two hours, he wrote.
In another post, he wrote, “Thank you for a memorable trip and a confirmed ticket that will keep me standing for the entire trip.” Another post states that it was not a regular vehicle, but a sleeper vehicle from 22840/Intercity Express.
“This kind of thing is happening everywhere now. It needs to be fixed as soon as possible or the whole train should be declared as a regular train,” a user commented. “But they will continue to run new Vande Bharat trains and cancel or delay regular trains,” another official said. “Nothing new though. These trains are still there. People even go and sit in the reserved trolleys, so that should definitely change,” a third person wrote.
“Buddy, this 2S booking is bogus unless you are traveling in the off-season and that too only to a few states of India. It will be,” another netizen posted.
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Date first uploaded: Dec 28, 2023 13:38 IST