law: Railways Act, 1989
  2. Definitions. 
  In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- 
  (1) "authorized" means authorized by a railway
  
  administration;
  (2) "carriage" means the carriage of passengers or
  
  goods by a railway administration;
  (3) "Claims Tribunal" means the Railway Claims
  
  Tribunal established under section 3 of the Railway Claims Tribunal Act, 1987
  
  (54 of 1987);
  (4) "classification" means the classification of
  
  commodities made under section 31 for the purpose of determining the rates to
  
  be charged for carriage of such commodities;
  (5) "class rates" means the rate fixed for a class of
  
  commodity in the classification;
  (6) "Commissioner" means the Chief Commissioner of
  
  Railway Safety or the Commissioner of Railway Safety appointed under section 5;
  
  
  (7) "commodity" means a specific item of goods;
  (8) "consignee" means the person named as consignee in
  
  a railway receipt;
  (9) "consignment" means goods entrusted to a railway
  
  administration for carriage;
  (10) "consignor" means the person, named in a railway
  
  receipt as consignor, by whom or on whose behalf goods covered by the railway
  
  receipt are entrusted to a railway administration for carriage;
  (11) "demurrage" means the charge levied for the
  
  detention of any rolling stock after the expiry of free time, if any, allowed
  
  for such detention;
  (12) "endorsee" means the person in whose favor an
  
  endorsement is made, and in the case of successive endorsements, the person in
  
  whose favor the last endorsement is made;
  (13) "endorsement" means the signing by the consignee
  
  or the endorsee after adding a direction on a railway receipt to pass the
  
  property in the goods mentioned in such receipt to a specified person;
  (14) "fare" means the charge levied for the carriage
  
  of passengers;
  (15) "ferry" includes a bridge of boats, pontoons or
  
  rafts, a swing bridge, a fly-bridge and a temporary bridge and the approaches
  
  to, and landing places of, a ferry;
  (16) "forwarding note" means the document executed
  
  under section 64;
  (17) "freight" means the charge levied for the
  
  carriage of goods including transhipment charges, if any;
  (18) "General Manager" means the General Manager of a
  
  Zonal Railway appointed under section 4;
  (19) "goods" includes- 
  (i) containers, pallets or similar articles of
  
  transport used to consolidate goods; and
  (ii) animals;
  (20) "Government railway" means a railway owned by the
  
  Central Government;
  (21) "in transit", in relation to the carriage of
  
  goods by railway, means the period between the commencement and the termination
  
  of transit of such goods, and unless otherwise previously determined- 
  (a) transit commences as soon as the railway
  
  receipt is issued or the consignment is loaded, whichever is earlier;
  (b) transit terminates on the expiry of the
  
  free time allowed for unloading of consignment from any rolling stock and where
  
  such unloading has been completed within such free time, transit terminates on
  
  the expiry of the free time allowed, for the removal of the goods from the
  
  railway premises;
  (22) "level crossing" means an inter-section of a road
  
  with lines of rails at the same level;
  (23) "luggage" means the goods of a passenger either
  
  carried by him in his charge or entrusted to a railway administration for
  
  carriage;
  (24) "lump sum rate" means the rate mutually agreed
  
  upon between a railway administration and a consignor for the carriage of goods
  
  and for any service in relation to such carriage
  (25) "non-Government railway" means a railway other
  
  than a Government railway;
  (26) "notification" means a notification published in
  
  the Official Gazette;
  (27) "parcel" means goods entrusted to a railway
  
  administration for carriage by a passenger or a parcel train;
  (28) "pass" means an authority given by the Central
  
  Government or a railway Administration to a person allowing him to travel as a
  
  passenger, but does not include a ticket;
  (29) "passenger" means a person traveling with a valid
  
  pass or ticket;
  (30) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under
  
  this Act;
  (31) "railway" means a railway, or any portion of a
  
  railway, for the public carriage of passengers or goods, and includes- 
  (a) all lands within the fences or other
  
  boundary marks indicating the limits of the land appurtenant to a railway;
  (b) all lines of rails, sidings, or yards, or
  
  branches used for the purposes of, or in connection with, a railway;
  (c) all electric traction equipments, power
  
  supply and distribution installations used for the purposes of, or in
  
  connection with, a railway;.
  (d) all rolling stock, stations, offices,
  
  warehouses, wharves, workshops, manufactories, fixed plant and machinery, roads
  
  and streets, running rooms, rest houses, institutes, hospitals, water works and
  
  water supply installations, staff' dwellings and any other works constructed
  
  for the purpose of, or in connection with, railway;
  (e) all vehicles which are used on any road
  
  for the purposes of traffic of a railway and owned, hired or worked by a
  
  railway, and
  (f) all ferries, ships, boats and rafts which
  
  are used on any canal, river, lake or other navigable inland waters for the
  
  purposes of the traffic of a railway and owned, hired or worked by a railway
  
  administration, but does not include- 
  (i) a tramway wholly
  
  within a municipal area;. and
  (ii) lines of rails built in any exhibition
  
  ground, fair, park, or any other place solely for the purpose of recreation;
  (g) "railway administration", in
  
  relation to- 
  (a) a Government railway, means the General
  
  Manager of a Zonal Railway; and
  (b) a non-Government railway, means the parson
  
  who is the owner or lessee of the railway or the person working the railway
  
  under an agreement;
  (33) "railway receipt" means the receipt issued under
  
  section 65;
  (34) "railway servant" means any person employed by
  
  the Central Government or by a railway administration in connection with the
  
  service of a railway;
  (35) "rate" includes any fare, freight or any other
  
  charge for the carriage of any passenger or goods;
  (36) "regulations" means the regulations made by the
  
  Railway Rates Tribunal under this Act;
  (37) "rolling stock" includes locomotives, lenders,
  
  carriages, wagons, rail-cars, containers, trucks, trolleys and vehicles of all
  
  kinds moving on rails;
  (38) "station to station rate" means a special reduced
  
  rate applicable to a specific commodity booked between specified stations;
  (39) "traffic" includes rolling stock of every
  
  description, as well as passengers and goods;
  (40) "Tribunal" means the Railway Rates Tribunal
  
  constituted under section 33;
  (41) "wharfage" means the charge levied on goods for
  
  not removing them from the railway after the expiry of the free time for such
  
  removal;
  (42) "Zonal Railway" means a Zonal Railway constituted
  
  under section 3.