Indian Railway Rules : If your luggage is found more than the prescribed limit during checking in the train, then you may have to loose your pocket, which means you may have to pay a fine.
New Indian Railway Rules: People book train tickets well in advance to go anywhere. When someone goes to his home, obviously he takes the goods with him. Do you know how much luggage a passenger can take with him in the train? Although it differs according to the class.
If your luggage is found more than the prescribed limit during checking in the train, then you may have to loose your pocket, which means you may have to pay a fine. So let us tell you how much salmon you can take in which class.
Rules have been set for carrying luggage in sleeper coach, tier-2 coach and first class coach in the train. That is, you can carry goods only up to a specified limit. According to your ticket, a weight is fixed and according to that you can take the goods in the train.
According to railway rules, a passenger can carry 40 kg of luggage in a sleeper coach. If there are two people, then you can carry up to 80 kg of goods. This limit is per passenger. At the same time, a passenger can carry up to 50 kg of luggage in Tier-2 coach. In first class this limit becomes more. Passengers traveling in First Class can carry up to 70 kg of luggage.
This is the rule of fine:
If someone travels in a train carrying more than the limit, then he has to pay a fine of more than Rs.600 for a journey of up to 500 kilometers. This penalty is decided on the basis of distance. If there is more luggage then it has to be deposited in the luggage bogie.
