The best way to experience the local customs of the destination country is to learn more about the food, clothing and transportation of the local country. For India, it is easy to understand food and clothing, but it is more difficult to estimate the way to travel in India, but it is not denied that this is a best opportunity to understand India. Here is a line of photography for everyone to share some experience in India how to ride the train, hoping to help friends in India travel photography. Your ticket will have your train number, carriage and berth number printed on it. Two hours before departure, each station will publish the booking list of the long-distance train on the notice board, with the name, gender, age and gender of each ticker to help the inspector to determine the number of trains, carriages and bunk of passengers. Of course, there is also a ticket sticker at the entrance of each carriage. Check your name. The Indian ticketing system is so efficient that the days it takes to confirm whether you have a ticket are gone. Dining on Indian trains There are no dining cars on Indian trains, but on long-distance trains the conductor will come to your car and ask if you would like to order a meal. He will take note of your choices (usually vegetables or no vegetables). About an hour later she would bring rice and curry in tinfoil boxes from the kitchen. The price is not too expensive, about 1 or 2 pounds a meal. The conductor also sells drinks, snacks or hot garam chai (just a few rupees) in each car. Meals on the best Rajdhani Express, which runs between Delhi and Mumbai, Kolkata, etc., and the main daytime Shatabdi Express (connecting Delhi with Jaipur, Angola, etc.) are included in the ticket price. Sanitation, toilets and overcrowding Indian trains used to be very crowded, often with people hanging on the roof and outside of the train, but now the efficient booking system allows you to forget all of this, and those images are only seen on suburban trains or basic long-distance non-reserved class 2 cars. In long-distance AC1, AC2, AC3, or AC seats, all passengers have reserved seats or bunks, so there is no crowding. Don't hold India to the standards of Western society. The AC1, AC2, AC3, or AC seats are pretty clean by Indian standards. The bathroom has two types of squatting and sitting toilet, and it is clean. That said, non-air-conditioned sleeping compartments are less sanitary than air-conditioned ones, and unbooked passengers sometimes enter these compartments causing crowding. Class 2 can be pretty crowded without a reservation. A toilet in a non-air-conditioned sleeper or non-air-conditioned class 2 is enough to discourage you from taking this class of car. Indian trains are very safe for tourists, even for families or single women. But luggage theft does happen, so it's best to get a bike lock or a medium-sized padlock to protect your luggage. There are wire hooks under the seats in the sleeping cars, you can lock your luggage on this. Pickpockets are usually found at major stations such as Delhi and New Delhi, and in crowded places, so please be careful. Do Indian trains run on time? By and large, Indian trains are punctual, but delays do occur, sometimes by several hours. In that case, check out www.erail.in to see how late the Delhi-Jaisalmer express was yesterday, or how late the Mumbai-Delhi Rajdhani Express was last Thursday. On this website, select the origin and destination of the train will pop up the train list, click on the train you want to check, select the date, click 'train running status'. You will see a schedule of planned trains and a schedule of actual arrivals at each station. The data is only available for recent days, not weeks or months. Bring your own toilet paper. There are toilets at the front and back of each car. By Indian standards, the AC1 AC2 AC seat carriages and even the toilets in the AC3 are clean and functional. The toilet of the non-air-conditioned sleeper and the non-air-conditioned 2 compartment is not flattering.