indian railway rules if train is running late due to fog you will get free meal know the rules

By Cross Talk India Team On Nov 23, 2024

Indian Railway Rules: Indian Railways is the fourth largest railway system in the world. More than 2.5 crore passengers travel by train every day in India. For which Indian Railways runs thousands of trains. In India, often when someone has to travel a distance. So most of the people prefer to go by train only. Train travel is very comfortable and convenient.

But now cold has knocked in India. There is very dense fog in many cities. Due to which railway operations have also been affected. Indian Railways has to cancel some trains due to fog. So due to this many trains get delayed. By how many hours is the train late? Then you get free food from the Railways, let us tell you.

Food is available when the train is delayed by so many hours

If the train is late from the Indian Railways, the passengers get many facilities. In this, free food facility is also provided to the passengers. If the train is late then passengers can stay in the waiting room for free. If passengers are traveling by trains like Rajdhani Express and Shatabdi Express. And Rajdhani or Shatabdi train is late by 3 hours or more.

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So free food is arranged for these passengers. And if for some reason the train is late. So the food stalls at the railway station are opened for longer hours than normal. Apart from this, considering the safety of passengers, Railways deploys additional RPF personnel.

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Full refund will be given on ticket cancellation

If your train is running more than 3 hours late than you. Then in such a situation, if you get the train ticket cancelled, you will be given a full refund by the Railways. Even if the Railways has diverted your train, you can still cancel your ticket. On this also you are given full refund. If you have booked the ticket from the railway ticket counter.

Then you have to go to the railway counter and get your ticket cancelled. From there you can get refund in the form of cash. If you have booked the ticket online then you can cancel the ticket online. You will be given the refund through the same medium through which you booked your tickets.

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