[
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.
- The decade following saw the first railway train arrive from the East, the first C.P.R. steamship anchored in port, the Klondike "boom," and the great mining industries of British Columbia well under way. Canadian Cities of Romance
- Although prior to the lockout Westshore had an estimated 1 million ton stockpile of coal available to load, unionized longshore workers refused to cross the railway pickets and those who were working walked out.
- 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.
