It is customary that during festival seasons, train season tickets are given by the railway authorities and the reservation for these special trains during festival seasons gets over in minutes mainly through online booking which is becoming very popular these days. Once I was booking the train season ticket online and suddenly the system got struck and the reservation software that was functioning showed an error message that the transaction was not completed and the internet connection was very slow at that time. There were a lot of advertisements in the railway site that made the web site to load very slowly. Once again I tried to book train season ticket online using my credit card and this time it was successful and had reserved a train ticket.

The next day I was shocked to note that my card was charged twice while booking the ticket online and had to cancel a ticket. I went to the railway counter and canceled the ticket and got back half the train fare. From that day onwards, I was reluctant to book the train season ticket online.

The growth of internet have revolutionized many fields and to book train ticket online is one of the new trends since the introduction of train ticket reservation but the internet has made common man suffer as the tech savvy persons and the travel agents book train ticket online and the reservation gets over in minutes and the people have started protesting that only 50 percent of the reservations must be done online and the rest to be done manually in the reservation counters. The railway officials are seriously reviewing this and will be making the changes shortly to restrict the train reservations online and to avoid the dominance of the travel agencies in the ticket reservation.

The train ticket reservation gets over as most of the travel agencies book the train season ticket online in just minutes and then cause the passengers standing in the queue to be in waiting lists. These travel agencies make good money by selling the tickets to the customers and nowadays people get their train tickets from the travel agencies instead of going to the reservation counters.

The special trains are delayed very long and one cannot reach the particular destination on time as these trains are stopped in the middle to give way for the regular trains to pass through and then these trains move making the journey a long one.