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| Not boarding or de-boarding as per your reserved train ticket? Break journey rules you must know | | |
New Delhi: Indian Railways is one of the largest railway networks in the world. Break of journey, at en-route station, is permitted only on those single journey ticket which are for more than 500 Kms. The first break of the journey shall not, however, be admissible until a distance of 500 km. has been travelled from the starting station. Only one break-journey will be permitted on tickets up to 1,000 Kms. and maximum of two break-journeys will be allowed on tickets of longer distances.
The period of break-journey that can be availed at a station will be up to a maximum of 2 days only excluding the day of arrival and the day of departure of the train. For all return tickets, each half of the tickets is treated as a single journey ticket. It may be noted that break of journey is not permissible on the tickets of certain trains like Rajdhani Express, Shatabdi Express, etc. which have separate all-inclusive fare structure on a point-to-point basis, and therefore, refund on such partially used tickets is also not admissible.
If you are not boarding or de-boarding the train as per your tickets, here are break journey rules that you need to know
1. Whenever a passenger detrains at a station en-route for catching a connecting train, it should not be treated as break journey provided such halt is for less than 24 hours. For example, the holder of a direct ticket from Pune to Jammu Tawi via Dadar travels from Pune to Bombay by any day train a day earlier in order to catch Bombay-Jammu Tawi Express next morning leaving Bombay at 6.25 hours shall not be treated as break journey.
2. Passengers are required to have their tickets endorsed at the station where the journey has been broken. The endorsement shall consist of the station code, station Master's Initials and the date.
3. Passengers breaking the journey and not obtaining the endorsement as prescribed will be treated as persons travelling without a proper ticket and dealt with accordingly.
4. Passengers breaking the journey en route except as provided above must surrender their tickets at the station where the journey is broken and obtain Ticket Deposit Receipt (TDR). Thereafter, they should act in accordance with the instructions on TDR for claiming a refund for the untravelled portion on such tickets.
5. Break journey shall not be permitted short of the station up to which reservation has been done. If a passenger seeking reservation on ticket wants to break journey enroute, it should be clearly indicated on the Requisition form the names of the stations where the break journey is required.
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