Summary: Railway logged 8 incidents in 8 days in May 2026. That sounds bad before you find that they had 1,112 outages since October 2022, averaging roughly one outage per day over three years. This article goes deeper into the instability of Railway as a platform. All data here is collected from Railway's public status page, historical incident records, postmortem blog posts, and third-party tracking via StatusGator. Railway's early-May 2026 incident streak looked bad on its own. Over eight days, the developer platform reported problems affecting builds, regional networking, volume-backed services, and even Central Station login. The more consequential point is that the streak was not an outlier. The worst incidents of 2026 had already happened months earlier, and they were of a different character entirely. Railway is not selling raw infrastructure. It is selling abstraction: less operational overhead, faster shipping, a simpler way to deploy and run applications.…