[
US
/ˈɹeɪɫˌweɪ/
]
[ UK /ɹˈeɪlweɪ/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈeɪlweɪ/ ]
NOUN
- line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight
-
a line of track providing a runway for wheels
he walked along the railroad track
How To Use railway In A Sentence
- On the moor, we crossed becks bridged by railway sleepers and bulging with pondweed and we met a couple of cyclists.
- Reports of a youth on the line at a level crossing yesterday sparked an alert on the railways.
- At the end of the novel she marries the stockjobber, a leading promoter of the American railway scheme.
- The railway had made a considerable capital outlay on new rolling stock.
- This week has been chaos on the railways as so many lines need to be checked and speed restrictions have been introduced.
- His interest was in opening the nightclub next to the theater, in the abandoned Trailways bus depot.
- Maximum assembling is the core of the design of the railway passenger station capacity and scale.
- He is a mechanical fitter by trade and he hopes to return to working on the railways.
- If two countries use a different width of railway track, then goods and people travelling between them have to stop and change trains.
- The railway station is some distance from the village.
