The Railways Act, 1989 is an Act of the Parliament of India which regulates all aspects of rail transport. The Act came into force in 1989, replacing the Railways Act of 1890. The Act provides in detail the legislative provisions regarding railway zones, construction and maintenance of works, passenger and employee services. Definitions Some of the definitions from the act are given below: "authorized" means authorized by a railway administration; "carriage" means the carriage of passengers or goods by a railway administration; "Claims Tribunal" means the Railway Claims Tribunal established under section 3 of the Railway Claims Tribunal Act, 1987 (54 of 1987); "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; "class rates" means the rate fixed for a class of commodity in the classification; "Commissioner" means the Chief Commissioner of Railway Safety or the Commissioner of Railway Safety appointed under section 5; "commodity" means a specific item of goods; "consignee" means the person named as consignee in a railway receipt; "consignment" means goods entrusted to a railway administration for carriage; "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; "demurrage" means the charge levied for the detention of any rolling stock after the expiry of free time, if any, allowed for such detention; "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; "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; "fare" means the charge levied for the carriage of passengers; "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; "forwarding note" means the document executed under section 64; "freight" means the charge levied for the carriage of goods including transhipment charges, if any; "General Manager" means the General Manager of a Zonal Railway appointed under section 4; "goods" includes- containers, pallets or similar articles of transport used to consolidate goods; and animals; "Government railway" means a railway