India, Aug. 3 -- Indian Railways' West Central Railway (WCR) has updated the rules for booking Tatkal train tickets from August 1, 2026. Customers are not required to wait in long queues anymore, thanks to a new token-based system. The move is aimed at streamlining the booking procedure, ensuring faster processing times, and better managing crowds at the reservation counters.

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What are the new rules for Tatkal booking? Representational image credit: Suyash Dwivedi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Under the new arrangement, passengers will be required to first collect a token within a specified time window. The tokens for AC coaches will be distributed from 8:30 am to 9 a...