# Railway (ريلواي)

> Railway is available in Syria with limited functionality, as of 2026-08-10.

- Status: limited
- Outreach: In Review
- Company: [Railway](https://unblocksyria.com/en/companies/railway.md)
- Categories: Cloud Hosting, CI/CD & DevOps, Databases, Web Hosting
- Official site: https://railway.app
- Community votes: 6
- Last updated: 2026-08-10
- Page: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/railway

## About

Cloud infrastructure platform for deploying apps, databases, and services instantly

## Activity summary

Partially blocked in Syria, verified in February 2026: the homepage is browsable, but login and any authenticated action are blocked by a firewall from Syrian connections. Community volunteers contacted the company in February 2026 citing the lifting of sanctions, and the company sent an automated acknowledgment promising a review, with no substantive response since.

## Community reports

- 2026-02-28 — Company Responded. Railway's support team responded to the unblocking request via an automated email from support@railway.com. The response confirmed receipt of the message and stated that Railway takes privacy seriously and will review the request carefully, aiming to respond within 5–10 business days. The response appears to be an automated acknowledgment rather than a human review.
- 2026-02-28 — Contacted Company. A community volunteer emailed Railway's privacy team at privacy@railway.com requesting that service access be enabled for users in Syria. The email referenced the December 2025 U.S. Treasury announcement lifting the comprehensive trade embargo, confirmed that Syria is no longer listed under OFAC's embargoed countries, and included links to OFAC guidance and unblocksyria.com/resources as supporting documentation.
- 2026-02-28 — Investigated. Community testing showed that Railway is blocked at railway.com (the new domain after rebranding from railway.app). Accessing railway.com from a Syrian IP returns a Cloudflare security block page stating "Sorry, you have been blocked — You are unable to access railway.com." The page references the Cloudflare Ray ID and suggests contacting the site owner. (evidence: https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/j612xhqahknp9uoycc70srai/kvtl5wshexjc4ucm3kh44zya-1000119532.jpg)
- 2026-02-25 — Contacted Company. A community volunteer contacted Railway's support team at support@railway.com regarding Syria access restrictions. The automated reply explicitly stated that support is not provided over that email address and directed the volunteer to privacy@railway.com for privacy and personal data related enquiries. The volunteer then sent a detailed policy-level clarification request to privacy@railway.com titled "Policy-Level Clarification Request — Geographic Access Controls Affecting Syria," referencing the 2025 U.S. Treasury sanctions lift and EU sanctions removal, and attaching official regulatory documents. Railway's privacy team acknowledged receipt and committed to responding within 5–10 business days. (evidence: https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/akpozbdqvr52rhdxi57ejn7d/z2kgvxp36fs4uaj8asfy299v-screenshot-2026-03-02-235144.png, https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/oq0mfuibfun1dtd1cwoi7s4l/gd3hez62fpzniq8dyg57hzqm-screenshot-2026-03-02-235359.png, https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/emuxbtjfocb2lfhtfbdwhup1/m0nevjt5svr12q68c2nd2qvc-screenshot-2026-03-02-235721.png, https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/ybqhysfglp2dbjb84oxmxakf/u9ungakuw3lci7jicdhrkzym-screenshot-2026-03-02-235752.png)
- 2026-02-24 — Investigated. Community testing from Syria revealed that Railway is partially accessible. The main homepage at railway.com loads fully and can be browsed without a VPN. However, attempting to create a new project triggers "Error: Failed to fetch" messages, and the dashboard displays a "The train was derailed" error page. Login via backboard.railway.com is blocked by Cloudflare WAF with error message "Sorry, you have been blocked" (Ray ID: 9d2bb69d0da9cc1d). After authenticating via VPN and then disabling it, the site immediately blocks access. Status updated from blocked to limited. (evidence: https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/x1vcdcn0ihukoqtcqrrlkqbe/bjfbsjqk8tmp34zvsttvw8pc-screenshot-com.android.chrome.jpg, https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/pe1g4ohsli09298l83stug3p/p5cckleyesn71zmq2nrs3gt8-screenshot-com.android.chrome.jpg, https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/jkr3pgumtyp9wlgj4h2g0orn/yrha6z8knsrb6amy2c7ulnf1-screenshot-com.android.chrome.jpg, https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/ripthtokw5s1ho3plxd6lyx2/zq46djdppq5vb9nb38gg7pl7-screenshot-com.android.chrome.jpg)

## Context

These are geo-restrictions the companies applied themselves, not filtering by Syrian ISPs and not a legal requirement. US and EU sanctions on Syria were lifted in 2025. See https://unblocksyria.com/llms.txt for the regulatory summary and https://unblocksyria.com/en/about for citations to the specific orders and regulations.

## Machine-readable

- JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/railway?locale=en
- Timeline JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/railway/timeline?locale=en
- HTML: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/railway
- Other languages: https://unblocksyria.com/ar/services/railway.md, https://unblocksyria.com/ku/services/railway.md