PQWL 1 tickets can be confirmed if there is sufficient space available on the train after all passengers with higher priority reservations have been accommodated.
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When you book a ticket to a station for which tickets are issued from the pooled quota, then you get a pooled quota waiting list or PQWL if all the tickets available in the PQ quota have already been booked. This is similar to CKWL (Waiting list on the tatkal quota).
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.
IRCTC Refund Rules of Waitlist TicketsAs per IRCTC refund rules, if you have a Waitlisted e-Ticket (GNWL, RLWL, or PQWL) and its status remains the same even after the chart has been made, you will be refunded the fare automatically by IRCTC after deducting applicable fees.
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.
If you have a PQWL ticket, it means you are on the waiting list for a specific quota. Whether you can travel or not depends on whether your ticket gets confirmed before the journey date. If your ticket is not confirmed, you may not be allowed to board the train.
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.
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.
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.