Passengers board Tata-Yeshwantpur Express at Tatanagar last week. Picture by Animesh Sengupta Our Correspondent

Just wait in your tracks.

People of Jamshedpur planning to visit New Delhi, Mumbai, Puri or for that matter, even the south, will get confirmed tickets only after June 20.

Most passenger trains for these destinations have reached “no room” status which means that reserved tickets are not available in any class.

Figures from the computerised reservation booking centre at Tatanagar show that the reservation in trains like Puri- New Delhi Purushottam Express, Howrah-Ahmedabad Express and Geetanjali Express have reached the no room status.

“It’s called the summer vacation deluge,” said an official at the computerised reservation centre.

He added the reservation list had exhausted in almost all the long-distance trains heading for New Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad and towards south India.

“In several trains, the waiting list has crossed the 200 mark, while for some authorities have stopped issuing tickets due to the no-room status,” he said.

Numerous passengers who want to travel to New Delhi and Mumbai returned from the ticket counters empty-handed on Monday.

“I had booked a confirmed ticket for Puri-New Delhi Purushottam Express for New Delhi from Tatanagar on Saturday. But, due to inordinate delay in arrival of the train at Tatanagar, I was forced to cancel it. When I went to the reservation counter to purchase a fresh ticket for May 17 I was refused due to no-room status in that train. What to do?” said Priyadarshi Sinha, a homemaker at Sonari.

“Everybody cannot afford to travel on Rajdhani Express But, even in Rajdhani, the waiting list has crossed 150, forcing passengers to cancel tickets,” rued another passenger, Arvind Tiwary.

Officiating station manager of Tatanagar Rajendra Prasad said efforts were on to provide extra coaches to long-distance trains which would clear the rush of passengers.