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The agreement that governs your use of Railway Engine. Last updated 7 October 2026.

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01Acceptance of Terms

  • By accessing or using Railway Engine, you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions.
  • If you do not agree with any part of these Terms, you must immediately discontinue use of the Service.
  • Continued use of Railway Engine following any modification of these Terms constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

02Independent Service Disclaimer

  • Railway Engine is an independent developer platform.
  • Railway Engine is not affiliated with, endorsed by, authorized by, sponsored by, or officially connected with Indian Railways, IRCTC, CRIS, the Government of India, or any railway authority.
  • Railway Engine is not an official source of railway information.
  • Users must independently verify information before relying upon it for operational, financial, legal, regulatory, commercial, or customer-facing purposes.
  • Use of Railway Engine does not imply any relationship with or approval from any government organization.

03Service Description

  • Railway Engine provides APIs, developer tools, and related services that aggregate, process, and present railway-related information in a developer-friendly format.
  • The Service is provided free of charge to everyone; there is nothing to buy.
  • The Service is intended primarily for developers, experimentation, learning, prototyping, and lightweight integrations.
  • Access to Railway Engine does not transfer ownership of any software, infrastructure, documentation, intellectual property, or service components.

04API License

  • Railway Engine grants a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and use the Service.
  • The license remains valid only while the user's account is active and compliant with these Terms.
  • All rights not expressly granted are reserved by Railway Engine.

05API Key Security

  • API keys are issued to individual accounts and must remain confidential.
  • Users may not share, transfer, lease, sell, sublicense, publish, or distribute API keys.
  • Users are solely responsible for all activity performed using their API keys.
  • Users must immediately notify Railway Engine of any suspected unauthorized access or compromise.

06Commercial Usage

  • The free Service may be used for both personal and commercial purposes, subject to the fair-use rate limits described in these Terms.
  • Railway Engine is an independent developer project and is not marketed as enterprise-grade infrastructure.
  • Businesses integrating Railway Engine do so entirely at their own risk.
  • Railway Engine makes no guarantees regarding suitability for commercial operations, business continuity, compliance requirements, customer obligations, production workloads, or operational decision-making.
  • Users are solely responsible for determining whether Railway Engine is appropriate for their intended use.

07Prohibited Uses

  • Reselling API access, API responses, or any Railway Engine-derived service.
  • Redistributing Railway Engine data to third parties.
  • Providing Railway Engine responses through another API, platform, product, or service.
  • Creating a competing railway information service or API.
  • Building derivative products whose primary value is Railway Engine data.
  • Sharing API keys with customers, clients, partners, contractors, or other organizations.
  • Creating multiple accounts to bypass quotas, restrictions, or enforcement actions.
  • Attempting to circumvent authentication systems, security controls, quotas, or rate limits.
  • Reverse engineering, probing, testing, or attempting to discover internal implementation details.
  • Using Railway Engine for unlawful, fraudulent, deceptive, abusive, or unauthorized purposes.

08Data Usage and Storage Restrictions

  • Users may not create, maintain, replicate, enrich, archive, export, mirror, scrape, or distribute databases derived substantially from Railway Engine data.
  • Users may not use Railway Engine as a source for building permanent railway information repositories.
  • Users may not create historical datasets, commercial archives, analytics warehouses, or large-scale repositories derived primarily from Railway Engine data.
  • Long-term retention of Railway Engine data is prohibited except for temporary application functionality.
  • Temporary caching is permitted only to improve application performance and must not be used to avoid API usage.
  • Stored data may not be redistributed, resold, licensed, exposed through another service, or made publicly available.
  • Railway Engine reserves sole discretion in determining whether a user's storage or caching practices violate these Terms.

09Acceptable Use of Data

  • Railway Engine data may only be used within applications owned or operated by the user or their organization.
  • Users may not expose bulk data feeds, downloadable datasets, public APIs, exports, or derivative services primarily based on Railway Engine data.
  • Users may not use Railway Engine data to create competing platforms, marketplaces, aggregators, analytics products, or commercial data repositories.

10Rate Limits and Fair Usage

  • All usage is subject to rate limits, fair usage requirements, and technical restrictions. The Service currently applies a limit of approximately 60 requests per minute per API key.
  • Rate limits may be enforced per API key, account, IP address, application, organization, or other identifiers, and may be adjusted without notice.
  • Railway Engine may throttle, restrict, suspend, or terminate access where usage adversely affects service stability or violates fair usage policies.
  • Automated, abusive, or high-volume usage that degrades the Service for others is not permitted, even where individual requests fall within the published rate limit.

11Security and Suspicious Activity

  • Railway Engine may monitor service activity for security, fraud prevention, abuse detection, compliance, and operational purposes.
  • Any suspicious, abusive, fraudulent, unauthorized, or potentially harmful activity may result in immediate restriction, suspension, or termination.
  • Examples include credential sharing, unusual request patterns, scraping, quota abuse, automated account creation, resale attempts, data harvesting, or security violations.
  • Users may be required to provide additional verification during investigations.
  • Railway Engine reserves sole discretion in determining whether activity is suspicious or abusive.

12Account Suspension and Termination

  • Railway Engine may suspend, restrict, disable, or terminate accounts without prior notice.
  • Violations involving resale, redistribution, key sharing, abuse, data extraction, suspicious activity, or breaches of these Terms may result in immediate termination.
  • All licenses and access rights immediately cease upon termination.
  • Associated API keys, accounts, IP addresses, domains, applications, organizations, and related resources may also be blocked.

13The Service is Free

  • The Service is provided free of charge. Nothing is sold and no payment details are collected.
  • Because no fees are charged, there is no billing, no refunds, and no payment disputes.
  • Free access is granted subject to the rate limits and fair-use requirements described in these Terms.
  • Accounts suspended or terminated for violations of these Terms do not receive compensation or priority reinstatement.
  • The free Service may be limited, modified, or discontinued at any time as described in these Terms.

14Third-Party Data Sources

  • Railway Engine may rely on third-party systems, publicly available information, external services, and infrastructure providers.
  • Railway Engine does not control such third-party sources and cannot guarantee their availability, continuity, legality, accuracy, completeness, or future accessibility.
  • Changes made by third-party providers may affect Railway Engine without notice.
  • Railway Engine is not responsible for inaccuracies, interruptions, delays, or failures resulting from third-party systems.

15Service Availability

  • Railway Engine is provided on a best-effort basis.
  • No service level agreement (SLA), uptime commitment, availability guarantee, reliability guarantee, or response-time guarantee is provided unless explicitly agreed in writing.
  • Maintenance, outages, upgrades, infrastructure failures, data source changes, technical issues, force majeure events, or third-party failures may affect service availability.
  • The Service may become unavailable at any time without prior notice.

16Business Dependency Disclaimer

  • Users must not treat Railway Engine as their sole source of operationally critical railway information.
  • Users are responsible for maintaining backup systems, fallback providers, alternative solutions, and contingency plans where business continuity is important.
  • Railway Engine shall not be responsible for losses arising from outages, service interruptions, reduced availability, data changes, or service discontinuation.
  • Users acknowledge that Railway Engine may be modified, restricted, suspended, or discontinued at any time.

17Service Modifications and Discontinuation

  • Railway Engine reserves the right to modify, suspend, restrict, replace, remove, or discontinue any feature, endpoint, API version, rate limit, or service component at any time.
  • Railway Engine has no obligation to continue operating any part of the Service indefinitely.
  • No compensation, migration assistance, replacement services, consulting services, source code access, technical support, or continued operation shall be owed following service modifications or discontinuation except where required by law.

18Intellectual Property

  • All Railway Engine software, APIs, branding, documentation, infrastructure, website content, designs, logos, and platform components are protected by applicable intellectual property laws.
  • No ownership rights are transferred through use of the Service.
  • Users may not copy, reproduce, distribute, modify, or create derivative works from Railway Engine except as expressly permitted.

19Disclaimer of Warranties

  • The Service is provided on an 'AS IS' and 'AS AVAILABLE' basis.
  • Railway Engine expressly disclaims all warranties, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise.
  • Railway Engine does not guarantee accuracy, completeness, reliability, availability, suitability, performance, or fitness for any particular purpose.
  • Users assume all risks associated with use of the Service.

20Limitation of Liability

  • To the maximum extent permitted by law, Railway Engine and its owner shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, punitive, or economic damages.
  • This includes loss of revenue, profits, business opportunities, customers, goodwill, data, contracts, operational capability, or business continuity.
  • Railway Engine shall not be liable for decisions made based on information obtained through the Service.
  • In all circumstances, Railway Engine's total aggregate liability shall not exceed the amount paid by the user to Railway Engine during the thirty (30) days preceding the event giving rise to the claim, which is zero as the Service is provided free of charge.

21Indemnification

  • Users agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Railway Engine and its owner from any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, expenses, legal costs, or demands arising from their use of the Service, violation of these Terms, misuse of API data, or infringement of third-party rights.

22No Agency Relationship

  • Nothing in these Terms creates any partnership, joint venture, employment relationship, agency relationship, franchise relationship, or official representation between Railway Engine and any user.
  • Users may not represent themselves as official partners, distributors, agents, or representatives of Railway Engine.

23Changes to Terms

  • Railway Engine may update these Terms at any time.
  • Changes become effective upon publication.
  • Continued use of the Service after publication constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

24Governing Law

  • These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of India.
  • Any disputes arising from or relating to the Service shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located in India.
  • Mandatory consumer protection rights under applicable law shall remain unaffected where legally required.