Waitlist (WL) ticket will get to RAC (Reservation against cancellation) before getting Confirmed (CNF). If there aren’t enough cancellations by other confirmed passengers, your ticket might be finalized at RAC status,which makes you eligible to travel, but only with a seat, not a berth. On the other hand, if the chart is prepared with your ticket status still in WL, your name will not appear in the chart and you cannot board the train.
Now, let’s say you book two train tickets (you and your friend) and after moving from, say, a waitlist of WL12 and WL13, your tickets are finalized at RAC 71.
On the final chart, you might find this as some RS8 71 (and another ticket too with same RS8 71 ), where R represents RAC, S8 represents the coach (this can be anything, S1, S2 and so on) and 71 the seat. Please note that only a single seat (with number 71) has been allotted to you and your friend and hence you do not get a berth to sleep.
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