Can we travel with PQWL ticket?

Can I travel with a PQWL? PQWL stands for Pooled Quota Waiting List. It is a waiting list ticket, and as per rules, you are not allowed to travel in PQWL ticket unless it is confirmed.



No, you cannot travel on a fully waitlisted PQWL (Pooled Quota Waiting List) ticket if it was booked as an e-ticket through IRCTC. If your ticket status remains "Waitlisted" after the final chart is prepared (usually 4 hours before departure), the ticket is automatically cancelled and a refund is issued to your account; boarding a train with such a ticket is considered "traveling without a ticket" and is subject to heavy fines. However, if your ticket is partially confirmed (meaning some passengers on the PNR have a berth and others are waitlisted), you are permitted to board. For those with a physical ticket bought at a station counter, you can technically travel in General (Unreserved) coaches, but you have no right to a seat in the reserved compartments unless the TTE can find an empty berth.

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If you have booked the ticket online through IRCTC and it doesn't get confirmed until charting, IRCTC will refund your amount. Hence traveling on PQWL, no matter what class you're in, will be treated as ticketless travel and penalized accordingly.

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You can cancel a PQWL ticket, but you don't have to. If it was purchased online, and remained waiting at the time of charting, your refund will be automatically credited to your account in 3–4 days.

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Once the tickets from the Pooled Quota is filled, PQWL tickets are issued. Chances of PQWL tickets getting confirmed are usually very low, as in the priority list of waiting list tickets it comes after GNWL.

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PQWL - Under Pooled Quota Waitlist, passengers travelling between intermediate stations and have a separate waitlist from the general waitlist. 8. RLWL - A Remote Location Waitlist has high chances of confirmation.

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PQWL tickets are distributed once the Pooled Quota tickets have sold out. Confirmation of PQWL tickets is unlikely because they are lower on the priority list than even the GNWL tickets.

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RLWL: It is a wait list quota given to passengers who wish to alight the train on an important station(mostly junction) on the route to their destination the passenger wants to travel between intermediate stations. RLWL ticket has a greater chance of confirmation as compared to PQWL.

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PQWL - Pooled Quota Waiting List means your travel starts from any intermediate station to the final destination or, Source station till any of the intermediate station or, any two intermediate stations of the train journey. Here in this case PQWL 5 was the Waiting list count of the ticket for which you have booked.

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As mentioned above, generally, the train chart preparation time is precisely 4 hours before the train departure. The final chart contains your information like name, age, gender, allotted berth, coach, and more. Trains scheduled to run their final chart at midnight are prepared at 8 PM of the previous evening.

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