Platform ticket validity: For how long can a person stay at the railway station by taking a platform ticket? Generally people are not aware about it. If you look at the ticket carefully, information about validity is also given on it.
Platform ticket validity: It often happens that some family member accompanies the passenger to board the train. There can be one or more passengers. There is also luggage with them. This is the reason why people go along with the passengers to make them sit comfortably in the train and return after making them sit comfortably. Similarly, people also reach Rewal station to receive passengers at other cities or places. The passenger has a train ticket, but the person who drops or picks up the passengers needs to buy a platform ticket. But do you know how long a person can stay inside the railway station on a platform ticket? If someone stays beyond the stipulated time, can he be fined?
Let us give detailed information about this. If you are going to drop or bring someone to the railway station, then first of all take the platform ticket. Platform tickets are also available online these days. To buy online platform ticket, you will have to install Railway’s UTS app in your phone. Install and register yourself and go to the platform ticket booking section, select the name of the station and book the ticket. Once you book the ticket, you will start seeing the ticket online (in the app). Along with time, date and name of the station, information about how long the ticket will be valid is also given on this ticket. Generally, this ticket remains valid for 2 hours at all major railway stations.
Along with this, it should also be known that after booking a platform ticket, it cannot be cancelled. So in such a situation, book the ticket only when you are going to the station. If you want to buy an offline ticket, you will get the platform ticket at the railway station itself.
What if the train is getting late?
When we booked a ticket for Delhi’s Nizamuddin station, the time shown was only 2 hours. Similarly, at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) railway station of Mumbai, the validity of platform ticket is only 2 hours. Sometimes it happens that the train gets late. In such a case, you should move only after seeing the live status of the train. Platform ticket should also be purchased accordingly. If in any case it is taking you more than 2 hours, then you can take another platform ticket after 2 hours.
What will happen if you wait more than 2 hours?
If a person enters the station with a platform ticket, he has no worries for 2 hours. If he stays inside for more than 2 hours and is caught while coming out, he will have to pay a fine of Rs 250. Along with this fine, fare till the nearest railway station of that station will also have to be paid. Suppose someone is caught at A station and the nearest station is B, then the fine will be Rs 250 + the fare between A and B station.
