WAM 4 - Father of the Nation for RailFans - Vikas Kumar

For a certain combination of station against a train that u r looking for, it had its max available seats 90 days prior to the date of journey, on and from which the booking had started.
(In India, Booking starts from the 90th day prior to the date of journey)
Upon exhausting the max available berths, it then goes into rac (Which...
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offers a confirmed seat, but again one has to share it with another co-passenger. Chances r high that RAC wud get confirm depending on certain permutation n combination).
Atlast the booking status moves into WL (Waiting List).
If I say the current status shows; RAC 4/RAC 3 or WL 4/WL 3, it simply means that 3 person had booked their tickets after the status had went into RAC or WL.
Hence if someone next books the ticket, his status should be RAC/WL-4. Now it has happened that one person from the top list (It can be available, RAC or WL but surely having booking status higher than the last person booked, has cancelled his ticket. Hence the current booking status is WL 3 (the Second Number).
Now when confirming the ticket, the WL can move to RAC and then to Confirmation. In some cases the WL tickets can directly confirm (Mostly in cases where RAC is not available; Ex:- PQWL Quota)

WL2/WL1
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1. The maximum WL for the given Date/Train/Stations has been 2 (Initial WL denotes the same as WL2)
2. Now, 1 person cancel the WL Ticket for the same Date/Train/Stations, which made the current Availability as WL1 (Later WL denotes current availability as WL1)
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PS: Stations mean all combination falling under same Quota & WL Count!!