RLWL- Remote Location Waiting List Meaning :Passengers started to book their tickets in IRCTC Online. While they book they the tickets in the trains, after all the train seats & tickets get’s booked. IRCTC website doesn’t show “House Full” Or “Train Full” board. Instead of that it still allows you to book the train tickets. Indian railways which always have few seats in the name called “Waiting List”.RLWL in IRCTC:RLWL is a kind of Waiting list in IRCTC. The Acronym RLWL Stands for Remote location Waiting List. This quota for all type of train passengers who live in major cities and metros. RLWL type of train tickets will be given a separate priority & confirmation will depend on the cancellation of a destination of confirmed ticket. If you still confused of the meaning of RLWL & the information, then read out the below example.For example if you booked a train ticket from Salem to Tirupur in a train which starts from Chennai and ends at Coimbatore , your ticket will be confirmed only when a confirmed passenger cancels his train ticket from Salem to Tirupur.RLWL Chance of confirmation:RLWL Chance of confirmation are less because there will be only very less number of RLWL tickets.
The passengers travelling from Salem to Tirupur will be very few. so the chance of confirmation for RLWL waiting list will be low, but at the same time the chance of Confirmation of waiting list will be more if you book from Chennai to Coimbatore. Because there will be more number of passengers will be travelling from source to destination in trains.GNWL will get confirm easily rather than RLWL, PQWL. As RLWL is alloted for major cities on the route of train. Always check how many seats are left in Tatkal Quota one day prior to your journey, from this you will come to know that your wait listed seat will get confirm or not. as the seats left over in Tatkal Quota given to the Wait listed people ( very less chances that people have confirmed ticket will cancel their ticket and you will get their seats). Use apps like Trainman, Confirmtkt from Google Play store, From this app you come to know that what are % of chances are their to confirm your wait listed seat.RLWL: Remote Location Waiting List (RLWL) means ticket is issued for intermediate stations (between the originating and terminating stations) because usually these are the most important towns or cities on that particular route.
This type of tickets will be given a separate priority and confirmations will depend on the cancellations of a destination confirmed ticket. Remote location stations prepare there own chart 2-3 hours before the actual departure of train. For this type of ticket there are less chances of confirmation.For Example:-If the status is RLWL7 / RLWL 1, then this means that you have a current remote location waiting list of 1 (the latter number). The difference between the two (7 - 1 = 6 in this case) means that 6 passengers who booked before you have already cancelled their ticket. Your ticket will get confirmed only if 1 passengers who have booked before you for the same journey happen to cancel their journey.Always remember that GNWL is preferred than RLWL during chart preparationNo. There is lesser chance compared to GNWL and further less compared to PQWL.If you are not getting confirm seats for desired stations, seek availability in PQ or RL category if any room is there.But if they are also full, means wait-listing started, it is wise to go for GNWL.
Follow to get more on Railways Reservation Rules.The advance booking for indian train ticket opens 120 days before the date of journey. Tickets can be booked both offline at Passenger Reservation System (PRS) or online using irctc website. Ticket booked online can be an e-ticket ( which is a print-out / sms) or an i-ticket wherein the PRS ticket is couriered to the passenger. All the tickets issued have a unique 10-digit PNR (Passenger Name Record) which you should quote for any correspondence regarding your ticket / journey. The ticket also contains all the other journey details like train number, journey date, travel class, origin, destination, ticket status, berth details for confirmed tickets, passenger details etc. Maximum of six passengers can travel through one ticket. But just having a ticket does not guarantee that your journey is confirmed. It all depends on the ticket status. All the passengers in a ticket are assigned a ticket status which can be waiting (WL), RAC (a half berth), or confirmed (full berth).
These are explained below in detail: Waiting List (WL): If the passenger status is marked as WL followed by a number then the passenger has a waitlisted status. This can get confirm only if the passengers who have booked before you for the same journey cancel their ticket. For example if the status is GNWL 4 / WL 3 , then this means that you have a waiting list of 3 (the latter number) and your ticket will get confirmed only if 3 passengers who have booked before you for the same journey happen to cancel their journey. Similarly, GNWL/AVAILABLE means that current status of your ticket is CONFIRMED because some passengers who booked before you have cancelled their tickets. This status also gives some insight into the current ticket cancellation trends for this journey. For more on this, visit Trainman's trend analysis. In case the passenger status is waitlisted even after the chart preparation, then the passenger is not allotted any berth. If all the passengers on an e-ticket have waitlisted status after final chart preparation, then the ticket gets automatically cancelled and the amount is refunded back to the user’s account.
In this case, the passengers should NOT board the train. If at least one passenger has RAC or confirm status while other passengers on same ticket have waiting list status, then the e-ticket DOES NOT get cancelled automatically and the passengers are allowed to board the train. Waiting list can be of various types: GNWL: General Waiting List (GNWL) waitlisted tickets are issued when the passenger begins his/her journey at the originating station of a route or stations close to the originating station. This is most common type of waiting list and has got the highest chances of confirmation. RLWL: Remote Location Waiting List (RLWL) means ticket is issued for intermediate stations (between the originating and terminating stations) because usually these are the most important towns or cities on that particular route. For this type of ticket there are less chances of confirmation. PQWL: A Pooled Quota Waiting List (PQWL) is shared by several small stations. Pooled Quotas normally operate only from the originating station of a route, and there is only one Pooled Quota for the entire run.
The Pooled Quota is generally allotted for passengers travelling from the originating station to a station short of the terminating station, or from an intermediate station to the terminating station, or between two intermediate stations. RLGN: Remote Location General Waiting List (RLGN) is issued when a user books a ticket where WL quota is RLWL. This means after ticket booking RLWL gets named as RLGN. RSWL: Roadside Station Waiting List (RSWL) is allotted when berths or seats are booked by the originating station for journeys up to the road-side station and distance restrictions may not apply. This waiting list has also very less chances of confirmation. RQWL: If a ticket is to be booked from an intermediate station to another intermediate station, and if it is not covered by the general quota or by the remote location quotas or pooled quota, the request for the ticket may go into a Request Waiting List (RQWL). TQWL(formerly CKWL): For tatkal tickets, the waiting list issued used to be CKWL which has been changed to TQWL by the Indian Railways since December 2016.
If tatkal ticket goes up, it directly gets confirmed and doesn’t go through RAC status unlike GNWL. During chart preparation, general waiting list (GNWL) is preferred over tatkal waiting list (TQWL) therefore tatkal waitlisted tickets are less likely to get confirmed. Follow these tatkal booking tips to get a confirmed tatkal ticket. If you have booked a waiting ticket or you are deciding whether to book a ticket where current status is waiting, then check your chances of confirmation i.e. ticket will get confirmed or not. Reservation Against Cancellation (RAC): If a user has been issued an RAC ticket, then most likely his ticket will get confirmed by the time of chart preparation and he will get a berth. In case the ticket remains RAC even after chart preparation (if the coach number is preceded by R i.e. RB1, 31 means RAC seat no 31 in coach B1), then user is allotted a half berth (seat) i.e. two persons having RAC ticket status are allotted one side-lower berth. The TTE is obligated to allot berths which are cancelled after chart preparation to these RAC passengers.