Buy your train ticket via SMS in India

Ah wicked to see an announcement that Indian Railway officials are apparently looking to see how you can buy your rail ticket by SMS — so they might offer the service. 

I hoped for a moment that they’d cracked a working system but it’s just a proposed system at the moment.  Maybe this is good news based on the screw up with MMS and ticketing in Switzerland I blogged about the other day.

Anyway, here’s how it’s meant to work: –

The proposed system will enable you to send an SMS, indicating the stations between which you wish to travel, and your customer ID.

The server will acknowledge your message and send you a virtual ticket with a ticket number and details of your journey. If a ticket-checker stops you on the platform, simply pull out your mobile phone.

Link: Here