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Railway stations API

Indian Railways station codes to stations, and back.

About 4,000 stations with their code, state, railway zone and elevation, from Wikipedia's list of railway stations in India. No official open list exists; this one is kept by volunteers, so some codes are out of date and many entries lack a state or zone.

Base URL https://api.dharun.devNo API key600 requests a minuteThis page as Markdown

Station for a code

GET/v1/stations/{code}

Parameter	Description
`code`path, required	Station code, such as MAS or NDLS.

curl

curl "https://api.dharun.dev/v1/stations/MAS"

JavaScript

const response = await fetch("https://api.dharun.dev/v1/stations/MAS");
const body = await response.json();
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(body.error.message);
console.log(body.data);

Python

import requests

response = requests.get("https://api.dharun.dev/v1/stations/MAS", timeout=10)
body = response.json()
if not response.ok:
    raise RuntimeError(body["error"]["message"])
print(body["data"])

Response

{
  "data": {
    "code": "MAS",
    "name": "Puratchi Thalaivar Dr. M.G. Ramachandran Central Railway Station",
    "stateCode": "TN",
    "state": "Tamil Nadu",
    "zone": {
      "code": "SR",
      "name": "Southern"
    },
    "elevationM": 3
  },
  "meta": {
    "source": {
      "name": "List of railway stations in India",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_railway_stations_in_India&oldid=1371613797",
      "licence": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
      "version": "revision 1371613797",
      "retrieved": "2026-10-13",
      "attribution": "Station codes adapted from the Wikipedia article \"List of railway stations in India\", licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. This dataset is shared under the same licence."
    },
    "note": "From a community-kept list: a few codes are out of date (Mumbai CSMT is listed under its old code CSTM) and many stations lack a state or zone."
  }
}

Search stations

GET/v1/stations

By name (an exact code comes first, then names starting with the text), state or zone.

Parameter	Description
`q`query	Part of a station name, or a code.
`state`query	State code or name, for example TN or Tamil Nadu.
`zone`query	Zone code, such as SR. See /v1/stations/zones.
`limit`query	Results per page, 1 to 100.
`offset`query	Results to skip.

curl

curl "https://api.dharun.dev/v1/stations?q=chennai"

JavaScript

const response = await fetch("https://api.dharun.dev/v1/stations?q=chennai");
const body = await response.json();
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(body.error.message);
console.log(body.data);

Python

import requests

response = requests.get("https://api.dharun.dev/v1/stations?q=chennai", timeout=10)
body = response.json()
if not response.ok:
    raise RuntimeError(body["error"]["message"])
print(body["data"])

Response, with lists and long text shortened

{
  "data": [
    {
      "code": "MSB",
      "name": "Chennai Beach",
      "stateCode": "TN",
      "state": "Tamil Nadu",
      "zone": null,
      "elevationM": null
    },
    {
      "code": "MS",
      "name": "Chennai Egmore",
      "stateCode": "TN",
      "state": "Tamil Nadu",
      "zone": null,
      "elevationM": null
    },
    {
      "code": "MSF",
      "name": "Chennai Fort",
      "stateCode": "TN",
      "state": "Tamil Nadu",
      "zone": null,
      "elevationM": null
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "total": 5,
    "limit": 20,
    "offset": 0,
    "source": {
      "name": "List of railway stations in India",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_railway_stations_in_India&oldid=1371613797",
      "licence": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
      "version": "revision 1371613797",
      "retrieved": "2026-10-13",
      "attribution": "Station codes adapted from the Wikipedia article \"List of railway stations in India\", licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. This dataset is shared under the same licence."
    },
    "note": "From a community-kept list: a few codes are out of date (Mumbai CSMT is listed under its old code CSTM) and many stations lack a state or zone."
  }
}

Railway zones

GET/v1/stations/zones

curl

curl "https://api.dharun.dev/v1/stations/zones"

JavaScript

const response = await fetch("https://api.dharun.dev/v1/stations/zones");
const body = await response.json();
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(body.error.message);
console.log(body.data);

Python

import requests

response = requests.get("https://api.dharun.dev/v1/stations/zones", timeout=10)
body = response.json()
if not response.ok:
    raise RuntimeError(body["error"]["message"])
print(body["data"])

Response, with lists and long text shortened

{
  "data": [
    {
      "code": "CR",
      "name": "Central"
    },
    {
      "code": "ER",
      "name": "Eastern"
    },
    {
      "code": "ECR",
      "name": "East Central"
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "total": 19
  }
}

Data source

List of railway stations in India, revision 1371613797. Retrieved 2026-10-13. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Station codes adapted from the Wikipedia article "List of railway stations in India", licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. This dataset is shared under the same licence.

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