Rail bookings to remain briefly shut

Published - May 18, 2018 01:40 am IST - New Delhi

Rail services on Delhi passenger reservation system (PRS), including enquiry on 139 and ticket bookings, will remain unavailable for a period of two-and-a-half hours on Friday and Saturday, the Northern Railway said on Thursday.

The services will remain shut from 11.45 p.m. on Friday to 2.15 a.m. on Saturday due to upgrade work on Delhi’s computerised PRS, it said in a statement.

“All the services of Delhi PRS, that is reservation activities, enquiry on 139 and Internet booking will not be available during the period,” the statement said.

This is the second time this month when the PRS services will be suspended temporarily. The PRS of the Northern Railway, the North-Central Railway, the North-Western Railway and the North-Eastern Railway was shut for around three hours from 10.30 p.m. on May 5 to 12.15 a.m. on May 6 and again from 5.15 a.m. to 6.25 a.m. the same day.

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