The September 30, 2026 Railway Outage
Introduction
Railway-hosted domains returned HTTP 404 to new connections in all four Railway regions on September 30, 2026, for about five minutes between roughly 07:35 and 07:40 UTC. This happened after a new version of Railway's routing service went live before the database schema change it depended on had been applied. Railway's report says its running workloads were not affected and no data was lost, and existing connections stayed up, although some private networking lookups between services failed in the same window.
Railway's first public status update went out at 07:48 UTC, about eight minutes after routing had recovered, and described itself as a "post facto" report. The incident was marked resolved at 08:17 UTC, and Railway published a detailed incident report on its blog at 22:42 UTC the same day.
