Comments on: Indian Railways First AC – a major difference and a pleasure to travel http://www.chowchowbath.com/2008/07/27/indian-railways-first-ac-a-major-difference-and-a-pleasure-to-travel/ what's your bengloor quotient (BQ) ? Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:38:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: rimi http://www.chowchowbath.com/2008/07/27/indian-railways-first-ac-a-major-difference-and-a-pleasure-to-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-2856 rimi Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:28:38 +0000 http://www.chowchowbath.com/2008/07/27/indian-railways-first-ac-a-major-difference-and-a-pleasure-to-travel/#comment-2856 hey guys i found a new railways website … check out the Indian Railways Passenger Reservation Enquiry Website www.bharatrail.net i think its even better than the official one . i found the site neat, cool and fast to use … check it out urself .. hey guys i found a new railways website … check out the Indian Railways Passenger Reservation Enquiry Website

http://www.bharatrail.net

i think its even better than the official one .
i found the site neat, cool and fast to use …
check it out urself ..

]]> By: srik http://www.chowchowbath.com/2008/07/27/indian-railways-first-ac-a-major-difference-and-a-pleasure-to-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-2742 srik Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:52:23 +0000 http://www.chowchowbath.com/2008/07/27/indian-railways-first-ac-a-major-difference-and-a-pleasure-to-travel/#comment-2742 rishi thanks for those inputs. yes you can never compare trains with flights! and indian railways is improving from what it was but it still does have a long way to go. appreciate your comments on this post. keep reading! rishi

thanks for those inputs. yes you can never compare trains with flights! and indian railways is improving from what it was but it still does have a long way to go. appreciate your comments on this post. keep reading!

]]> By: Rishi http://www.chowchowbath.com/2008/07/27/indian-railways-first-ac-a-major-difference-and-a-pleasure-to-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-2736 Rishi Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:54:14 +0000 http://www.chowchowbath.com/2008/07/27/indian-railways-first-ac-a-major-difference-and-a-pleasure-to-travel/#comment-2736 Thing is, I traveled on first AC a while back and it does save you some money compared to the air-fare between destinations but there are visible problems that have to be taken care of. First off, these guys have Coupes which may have 2 or 4 berths, and the Railways do not apply any brain in assigning the Coupes. They would randomly give you a 4 berth coupe when there is a couple and may be a 2 berth one when there are kids (and they have berths too). All this was topped by the fact that the AC was not working. Also, I tried searching around for what facilities (in terms of food, services etc.) are provided, but looks like it ain't documented. So may be you can update the post above and copy/paste what I write here: ------ Facilities: First AC would generally mean some free snacks (they give you a water bottle, tomato soup and may be biscuits with tea). Now, you have to be extra careful in not giving money for any of these, as they're all provided free of cost. Again, it would be worthwhile to check with the on-call attendant in the coach and may be the TTE about any extra (or under) facilities you are being provided. Indian Railways is very poor at documentation. ------ All in all, it is indeed much more comfortable, but comes with a price. As Sri correctly said, BIAL's distance is one of the best reasons why you would not travel to 3 hour air-destinations from Bangalore - since you have to add another 4 hours with a lot of tension involved (and extraa-money too, Taxi costs are at least another 1000 bucks). _ Rishi Thing is, I traveled on first AC a while back and it does save you some money compared to the air-fare between destinations but there are visible problems that have to be taken care of.

First off, these guys have Coupes which may have 2 or 4 berths, and the Railways do not apply any brain in assigning the Coupes. They would randomly give you a 4 berth coupe when there is a couple and may be a 2 berth one when there are kids (and they have berths too). All this was topped by the fact that the AC was not working.

Also, I tried searching around for what facilities (in terms of food, services etc.) are provided, but looks like it ain't documented. So may be you can update the post above and copy/paste what I write here:

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Facilities:

First AC would generally mean some free snacks (they give you a water bottle, tomato soup and may be biscuits with tea). Now, you have to be extra careful in not giving money for any of these, as they're all provided free of cost. Again, it would be worthwhile to check with the on-call attendant in the coach and may be the TTE about any extra (or under) facilities you are being provided. Indian Railways is very poor at documentation.

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All in all, it is indeed much more comfortable, but comes with a price. As Sri correctly said, BIAL's distance is one of the best reasons why you would not travel to 3 hour air-destinations from Bangalore – since you have to add another 4 hours with a lot of tension involved (and extraa-money too, Taxi costs are at least another 1000 bucks).

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Rishi

]]> By: srik http://www.chowchowbath.com/2008/07/27/indian-railways-first-ac-a-major-difference-and-a-pleasure-to-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-2347 srik Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:00:07 +0000 http://www.chowchowbath.com/2008/07/27/indian-railways-first-ac-a-major-difference-and-a-pleasure-to-travel/#comment-2347 saikiran yes the difference is not much, but in bangalore you waste easily 4 hours going to and coming back from international airport. if you calculate that and your air travel time, it will still be about 6-7 hours! :) saikiran

yes the difference is not much, but in bangalore you waste easily 4 hours going to and coming back from international airport. if you calculate that and your air travel time, it will still be about 6-7 hours! :)

]]> By: saikiran http://www.chowchowbath.com/2008/07/27/indian-railways-first-ac-a-major-difference-and-a-pleasure-to-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-2343 saikiran Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:40:59 +0000 http://www.chowchowbath.com/2008/07/27/indian-railways-first-ac-a-major-difference-and-a-pleasure-to-travel/#comment-2343 i am a regular travelee in the indian airlines economy but i brought a ticket recently to vizag there is not a big difference in the cost of the 1ac to airfare economy as it was 1785 by 1ac the airfare was only 2900. but the flight saves me 7 hours i am a regular travelee in the indian airlines economy but i brought a ticket recently to vizag there is not a big difference in the cost of the 1ac to airfare economy as it was 1785 by 1ac the airfare was only 2900. but the flight saves me 7 hours

]]> By: vivek http://www.chowchowbath.com/2008/07/27/indian-railways-first-ac-a-major-difference-and-a-pleasure-to-travel/comment-page-1/#comment-1992 vivek Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:23:25 +0000 http://www.chowchowbath.com/2008/07/27/indian-railways-first-ac-a-major-difference-and-a-pleasure-to-travel/#comment-1992 Nice to see how you enjoyed the trip. I want to give you a information, hereafter if you want to book tickets in the internet visit <a href="http://www.indiantrains.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.indiantrains.org/</a> This site look is good and also this is the which search multi trains and links and i am very impressed about this features. it open fast it does not have pop-up and advertisement and also it has more features then all the above sites. I am really very impressed by this site we cannot find any fault with this site they are updating regularly and also putting new features every month. Cons: Unofficial, Pros: the one and only multi train search engine, good look, good presentation, open fast. Nice to see how you enjoyed the trip.

I want to give you a information, hereafter if you want to book tickets in the internet visit http://www.indiantrains.org/

This site look is good and also this is the which search multi trains and links and i am very impressed about this features. it open fast it does not have pop-up and advertisement and also it has more features then all the above sites. I am really very impressed by this site we cannot find any fault with this site they are updating regularly and also putting new features every month.

Cons: Unofficial,

Pros: the one and only multi train search engine, good look, good presentation, open fast.

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