Indian Railways: The 5 digit number is written on the top side of every ticket of Indian Railways. Every information related to your journey is hidden in this 5 digit number. If you also want to know about it, then we tell how?Â
Indian Railways Ticket 5 Digit Number: If you too often travel by train, then this news is of your use. Rarely have you noticed that a 5 digit number is written on every ticket. This digit contains complete information related to your journey. This number also gives you many big information. This number gives information about where you are going or where you are coming from?
Will give complete information about the journey
This number tells everything from your train status to category. Let us know how these 5 digits can be used to get complete information about your journey. Let us tell you that every train has a special number, this is its identity. This 5 digit number has digits from 0 to 9. Let us know about these 5 digit numbers.
What do digit mean?
There are numbers from 0 to 9 in 5 digits. Every number has a different meaning. Zero (0) means it is a special train. It can be summer special, holiday special or any other special train. You must have noticed on the occasion of Holi/Diwali that the numbers of special trains start from 0 only.
Digits from 1 to 4 mean
The first digit 1 means that this train travels a long distance. This train will be any one of Rajdhani, Shatabdi, Jan Sadar, Sampark Kranti, Garib Rath and Duronto. Being the first digit 2 also means that the train is long distance. Both 1 and 2 digits fall in the same category. Being the first number 3 means that this train is Kolkata Sub Urban Train. Digit is 4 then the train is sub urban train of New Delhi, Chennai, Secunderabad and other metro cities.
Digits from 5 to 9 mean
The first digit being 5 means train passenger. If first digit is 6 then it is MEMU train. At the same time, there is a DEMU train when the first digit is 7. It is a reserved train when the first digit is 8. The first digit is 9, so it is a sub-urban train of Mumbai.
second and subsequent digit
In this 5 digit number, the second and subsequent digit correspond to the first digit. If the first letter of a train starts with 0, 1 and 2, then the remaining four letters indicate the railway zone and division. This happens according to the 2011 4-digit scheme. Let’s know their numbers.
0- Konkan Railway
1- Central Railway, West-Central Railway, North Central Railway
2- Shows Superfast, Shatabdi, Jan Shatabdi. The next digits of these trains indicate the zone code.
3- Eastern Railway and East Central Railway
4- Northern Railway, North Central Railway, North Western Railway
5- National Eastern Railway, North East Frontier Railway
6- Southern Railway and Southern Western Railway
7- Southern Central Railway and Southern Western Railway
8- Southern Eastern Railway and East Coastal Railway
9- Western Railway, North Western Railway and Western Central Railway
Apart from this, let us tell you that the train whose first digit is one of 5,6,7, their second digit shows the zone. The rest of the digits represent the division code.
