By Alok Kumar Mishra Edited By: Alok Shahi Updated: Sat, 01 Nov 2025 01:06 (IST) Railway Booking Closed Today: All railway ticket booking apps including IRCTC, Rail Connect app of Indian Railways will not work tonight and till tomorrow morning. Railway passengers taking current reservation will not be able to use railway services such as taking reservation, current ticket booking, internet ticket booking or enquiries, etc. from the night of Saturday 1st November to the early morning of Sunday. cannot use. Railways announced the closure of all services for six hours. Due to upgrade of passenger reservation system of IRCTC and CRIS, app based e-ticketing system of Railways will not work. Railway News Railway News: Railway ticket booking will remain closed from 23:45 on Saturday, 1 November until 05:30 on Sunday, 2 November. Indian Railways Jagran Correspondent, Bhagalpur. Indian Railways Railway Reservation Closed Today Railway passengers who are taking current reservation from Indian Railways will face a lot of difficulties to avail railway services like train ticket reservation, current ticket reservation, internet ticket reservation and inquiries etc. to be used until Saturday evening and early Sunday morning. Due to the compression of PNR files and database files of passenger reservation systems of Kolkata-based IRCTC and CRIS, the app-based e-ticketing system of Railways will not work. Remove Advertisement Only Read News PRA Guddu Sah of Malda Railway Division of Eastern Railway told about the closure of railway services that due to the said work, railway ticket booking from 11.45 pm on Saturday, November 1 to 5.30 am. on Sunday, November 2, will be affected. Passengers will not get 139 services including mapping, current booking, internet booking for about six hours. During this period, all the facilities from ticket booking to inquiry will not be available on all the railway applications of IRCTC. Record sales of general tickets, 85 thousand reservations made. Bhagalpur: Crowd in trains increased after Chhath Puja. This can be measured from the sale of general tickets. Double the number of general tickets were sold in three days. More than 85 thousand passengers traveling in general coaches of long distance and passenger trains including Vikramshila Express, LTT, Ang Express, Farakka Express are included. 30 thousand general tickets were sold on Wednesday and 32 thousand general tickets were sold on Thursday. While on Friday more than 22 thousand tickets are expected to be sold. According to railway officials, the exact information about the sale of general tickets will be revealed only after the final ticket is made on Friday. Generally, 15 to 18 thousand general tickets are sold. Due to rain, there was less crowd in the trains compared to the last two days. But record general tickets were sold for two days, Wednesday and Thursday. 62 thousand general tickets were sold within two days. While usually 15 to 18 thousand general tickets are booked every day at Bhagalpur station. But due to the increase in crowd after Chhath, ticket sales also increased. However, there was not much impact on the sale of tickets at other stations including Ajgabinath Dham (Sultanganj), Kahalgaon. Also there is no such crowd in Jamalpur station. Deployment of 25 railway officials including ADRM. Railway officials say people from all places come here. That’s why it gets crowded here. That is why more than 25 officers and staff of Malda Division including ADRM Shiv Prasad Kumar, DPO Sachin Kumar, Senior DCM Anjan, RPF Commandant Asim Kumar Kullu, Station Director Utpal Sharma, Area Officer and Station Superintendent have been deployed for crowd control. Overcrowded crowd in Delhi tied up Vikramshila Express. Here, on Friday, the general coaches of Vikramshila Express were packed. More than a thousand people boarded the general coach in six common bogies. There was a long queue of people since 6 in the morning to get a seat in the train. Under tight security arrangements, passengers were boarded one by one in the coach using the numbering system. ADRM, Malda Shiv Prasad Kumar said that there was a record sale of general tickets in three days. About 85 thousand general tickets were sold. Due to continuous rain, there was less crowd on Friday compared to Thursday. But there was more crowd in the general coaches of Vikramshila Express today compared to Thursday. More than a thousand people were sacrificed.