It's quite a feat to get tickets on Indian trains. You can buy them online, but you have to be quick! Most open one month before, and there's a whole system of wait list tickets, where you have to wait for people to cancel and then you get closer up the list to get a ticket. So we end up in Kolkata train station waiting for the 10pm train wishing people weren't going to turn up, as we have one ticket out of four confirmed and were Waitlist 1,2 and 3! Eventually we were allowed on the train and it set off before we had a chance to catch up with the train inspector. Then some helpful passengers swapped round there seats and then we were all able to sleep, by sharing a couple of bunks, and then arrive refreshed at our destination. All aboard the Darjeeling Mail.
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