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.

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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.
Labourers were found in the docks, railways, factories and domestic spheres, many of them employed on a casual basis.
The delays at the railway crossing would be avoided by creating a new link road.
On Friday police had released closed-circuit television footage of two suspects at Cologne railway station.
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
A typical railway line is mainly characterized by two main types of scenario: viaduct and embankment.
Candle makers, after all, cannot be expected to hail the invention of the electric light bulb, nor hostlers the advent of automobiles, nor canal-boat owners the building of railways, nor TV broadcasters the laying down of cable systems.
This is a magical world of railway tracks that lead nowhere and rope swings that are played like a harp by the wind. Times, Sunday Times
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is aiming for annual average GDP growth of 6.6 percent through the remainder of his term ending in 2014, partly by boosting spending on roads, railways and ports. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
David spent more than 20 years working as a signalman on the railways.
When I was last in Barbican part of the shell of the house was still standing, roofless, disfloored, diswindowed, and pickaxed into utter raggedness, as so much rubbish yet waiting to be removed from the new railway gap. The Life of John Milton
The government would fund the railways on a cost-plus basis for four years while the company got to grips with its costs and management structure.
It introduces the functions and characteristics of railways telex automatic switch network, the volume control of telex network, operation guarantee of network and effects of network operation.
It had been 40 years since the company closed the railway, but now there was again an echo in the wilderness, as the whistle blew once more.
The railway line will soon reach to our town.
Standing clear of the cluster of converted railway carriages and huts that line the shingle shore, the tower has four storeys and two bedrooms. Times, Sunday Times
Northern Ireland Railways has replaced the telephones, and the police, telephone Moira 611222, have appealed for information.
Historical highlights are the old railway viaducts and an old railway tunnel which you can safely ride into.
He knocked his drive over the railway sheds, but turned his wrists a hair too soon. Tommy's Honour: The Extraordinary Story of Golf's Founding Father and Son
They said his wide gauge railways wouldn't work. The Sun
There are two evils of our present railway system, however, which are not chargeable to monopoly, but to the _attempt to defeat monopoly_, and which are important to our discussion. Monopolies and the People
Don't bother with the scenic railway, grumped the driver who picked us up from the Megalong Valley once we'd landed.
My father was a master baker before he joined the railways. Times, Sunday Times
His book is unspeculative to a degree seldom met with outside railway timetables. Times, Sunday Times
The Railway Administration of Beijing redressed the damage done to my baggage during the transportation.
Incidentally, the references to the Australian system are to the way its (state-run) railways ended up with three separate track gauges.
His decision to specify something bigger, better or more daring than the norm was logical, not hubristic: he believed it would result in a faster, safer, smoother-running railway.
Teams of highly trained and capable engineers were recruited into the railway industry.
It was not the porter who spoke now: it was some kind of official relic or shadow or mouchard left from the old custom-house, and suffered to hang on the railway-station as an ornament. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
The 33-year-old was confronted by two youths while walking under a railway bridge. The Sun
I live a little inland from the beach, across the railway line and through the forest. Times, Sunday Times
Soldiers guard the water and electricity works, armament factories, railway stations and post offices.
The country here is an expanse of smoothish tilted slopes, big, empty, and lonely, and crossed (at about the middle point) by a strange narrow gut or gully, up which the railway once ran to Montauban. The Old Front Line
There were also a few open spaces - like steel stockyards, railway marshalling yards and scrap yards with rusting car-hulks piled high like the lobster creels on Sorbaig pier.
As she approached the local railway station at the end of her route, she was struck by somebody from behind, held in an armlock around her throat and dragged off towards nearby dense trees and undergrowth.
After lunch we would trail around the neighbourhood which involved a lot of exploring of stream beds and ponds and railways.
Above all, his writings and his leadership made him the undoubted doyen of British railway historians.
Indeed, there is very little British railway publicity material of any kind aimed expressly at women consumers during this period.
June 21st, 2009 SHIMLA - In a freak accident, a 20-year-old man, who was travelling on the Shimla-Kalka holiday special train, was crushed between the tunnel wall and the rail bogie in Himachal Pradesh's Shimla district Sunday, railway police said. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
Self-adaptive fuzzy control method based on the acceleration feedback is researched for the lateral suspension system of heavy-duty railway locomotive and car.
He does some other weird stuff then like knock people over using chi, and pull a railway locomotive along by cables attached to huge piercings right through his biceps, insane but not as miraculous as the electrical stuff.
I'm on a railway platform trying to get to work during a period of heavy storms (service is totally knacked) and I'm in uniform with a crowd around me seriously dis-chuffed and about to remove my nipple rings without unclipping them. I HATE COMPUTERS ( a therapy intermission)
Roger Daltrey, frontman of The Who, wore a T-shirt proclaiming Davis's innocence, with the convicted man's name daubed across railway and road bridges. BBC News - Home
The metro central terminus is planned to be located close to the City Railway Station.
The new salary deal for railway workers will be a bench mark for pay settlements in the public sector.
The woman walked past the sailing club and onto the disused railway line, where she saw a man on a bicycle in front of her.
This was also a society undergoing huge change and upheaval – phyically as the railways shrank the land and technology changed the world of work from field to factory, mentally as the revelations of Darwin detonated under Christianity. Evil Book Thingy
Since then the Docklands Light Railway has branched off the network to serve the redeemed areas of London's east river.
A ride on the oldest funicular railway in Asia, to the Victoria Peak, commonly known as the Peak, was spectacular.
Railways, as a rule, are among the many things which they do _not_ order better in France, and the French Northern line is one of the worst managed in the world, barring none, not even the Italian _vie ferrate_. A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales
At the meeting, it was stated that there would be a further inspection of the carriages, locomotives and railway tracks.
One interesting development in the Indian telecoms market is the range of players getting involved in infrastructure buildout, such as railway and power companies.
It was a small room with a dormer window overlooking the railway line. TOY SHOP
He completed his training in 1855 on the Great Northern Railway at Peterborough and became locomotive shed foreman.
In an age when general staff pensions did not exist the railways might well keep elderly staff on the payroll for nominal duties.
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Smokers and nonsmokers can not be equally free in the same railway carriage.
Many of these trees are found alongside the many railway lines which cross the borough.
On a railway journey Mrs. Johnson liked to sit facing toward the engine.
The British government is expected to reject the idea of state subsidy for a new high speed railway.
One suggestion I've heard is to run the race along Aotea Quay between the highway off-ramp and the railway station.
To go over the Andes by rail entailed very steep gradients indeed, and when I come to write about rack railways I will come back to them.
The locomotive is normally kept on static display in the National Railway Museum.
Work is speeded up on the railway sidings into the camp.
This is because part of the existing East Rail line will be diverted on to new track that has been sandwiched between the existing live railway and the main pipelines carrying water from China.
Fields around Horwich are flooded in places, and all along the railway line to Bolton acres of land are seen under water.
This confluence happens 100 yards behind Bath railway station, and matches the city's nicety of line.
At stake are the exclusive rights to hundreds of miles of railway across the west Australian desert used to haul nearly half a billion tonnes of ore dug up each year to ocean ports.
When you've spent two weeks zizzing around on the hyper-fast, hyper-efficient French trains, the UK railways just don't compare.
Classy equestrian facilities and a model railway make it really stand out. Times, Sunday Times
A network of railways has spread over the province.
The British inland waterway system, flourishing in the early nineteenth century, was staffed by a large body of bargees who, like the railway navvies, earned an unenviable reputation for roughness.
But the noise hardly concealed the fact that most Laborites wholeheartedly favor modernizing the state-owned railways, which cost the nation $500 million in 1962 alone.
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They also agreed to encourage an increase in railway passenger traffic between Sofia and Thessaloniki.
An old railway viaduct at Stamford Bridge, near York, was to be saved.
In 10 years time, the system will comprise 16 subways and six light railways.
In the overnight rioting, about 100 attackers set fire to Redfern railway station, torched a car and smashed windows.
This was the culmination of a process of left-wing entryism which has seen unions representing communication workers, railwaymen, the fire brigades and the civil service fall like dominoes.
The railway slopes up slightly at this point.
I do not speak from personal experience, for I detest the sweet, cloying stuff; but it occasionally fell to my lot to guide down-stairs the uncertain footsteps of some ventripotent Kommerzien-Rath, or even of Mr. Over-Inspector of Railways himself, both temporarily incapacitated by injudicious indulgence in Swedish Punch. The Days Before Yesterday
Gaunt, filthy, and weak, Corrie made her way to the railway station and boarded a train for a three-day journey home to Holland.
Railways spread from major routes to smaller localities.
Only the 1,566-foot long viaduct carrying the railway line across Morecambe Bay holds its own against the incoming tide - very exciting to watch.
Now, the instinct of the Peace River agriculturist is vitally the same as that of the railway projector. Development of the Canadian West
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.
Around the district railway and traffic bridges were washed away or damaged, cutting off the district.
Their original conception involved a great railway station in one of the most important sites in the capital.
So, in April 1884, they opened the first of a series of funicular railways, or elevadores, to tackle the gradients.
The railway line , due for closure, has been granted a six - month reprieve.
He worked on the railways as a guard, riding at the end of the train in a wooden wagon, the brake van. The Times Literary Supplement
The new underground railway will facilitate the journey to all parts of the city.
A mule-powered railway was built to haul charcoal from the hinterlands to a loading pier on the south shore of the Toms River where coasting vessels took on cargo for Philadelphia and New York. Building Beachwood, Part One « Beachwood Historical Alliance
The government is expected to apply for a special administration order under the Railways Act in the High Court over the next few days.
A signal just outside York Railway Station is under inspection after a train carrying hundreds of passengers overshot a red light.
Though a railway has been pushed up-country from Jesselton for something over a hundred miles, both road and rolling-stock leave much to be desired, the little tin-pot locomotives not infrequently leaving the rails altogether and landing in the river. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China
We must practise energy conservation comprehensively and switch over to electricity-based traction for railways and urban transportation.
The railways were of crucial importance in opening up the American West.
Cream weatherboarding, green detailing on doors and window frames and what is apparently a reproduction Southern enamel 'target' station sign made by a member of the nearby Spa Valley Railway. Railway Echo No.3
Its furniture is made from teak reclaimed from old railway tracks. Times, Sunday Times
Chester has a railway station to the North East of the city centre, designed by Francis Thompson with an impressive Italianate frontage dating from 1848.
The railway system was modelled on the successful plan used in other countries.
The railways emerged in a parlous state, in dire need of a major overhaul.
We started out by looking at ways in which big projects such as railways could be financed by the private sector.
Railways were also constructed from Pegu to Martaban, 121 m. in length, and from Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
Such speed of travel was unimaginable before the railway age.
The railway line will soon reach to our town.
To reach the requirement of locomotive running standard by railway ministry and to control noise, this paper analyses, improves and tests Starting Transmission Gear Box (logogram as "STGB" ).
The railway track goes underground for a short distance.
Once the service was over the men would start work on the railway that ran alongside the camp.
The retrenchment of our railways has to stop.
He's disaccustomed to travelling by t 'railway, an' he'll be sure to want his rale mistress an 'his friend Learoyd, so ye'll make allowance for his feelings at fost.' Soldiers Three
Senior or middle-ranking safety officers or managers in the rail company are accused of having "little or no hands-on operating railway experience or expertise".
The railway signal showed that the train could pass.
A railway worker had a rather gruesome discovery whilst making his rounds last week.
Railways' have only a meagre capacity for manufacturing wagons in their workshops.
In the carriage cast the eye over the line as given in our railway map, and note the junctions; for at many of these -- such as Amiens, The South of France—East Half
Mountain lifts: Climb mountains the easy way by chair lift or by rack railway and cable car.
They contend that they have studied the transport systems in America and particularly in Canada and they say that they don't want to overdevelop their railway system. Present Position of the U.S.S.R.
Moreover, what building could better symbolise Britain's territorial expansion in the industrial age than the world's first purpose-built railway terminus?
Let us assume that the railways, mines, and the leading "trusts" are nationalized, public utilities municipalized, and the national and local governments busily engaged on canals, roads, forests, deserts, and swamps. Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement
Perhaps the only trades which are exclusive to railways in their nomenclature are platelayers, shunters and signalmen.
What blood vessel is to a man's body, that railway is to transportation.
Railway Minister Nitish Kumar said that the Indian Railways is planning to use a blend of five percent bio-diesel in the diesel derived from crude oil and gradually increase the share of bio-fuel to 20 percent as its supply increases.
This time, the concept was to co-opt the Mozambique railways and pipeline company - in return for financial compensation, they would agree not to tranship oil to Rhodesia.
The phenomenon of granitic spherical weathering is frequently encountered in railway engineering which traverses granite areas.
The contamination in the soil in this project is mostly creosote, a product used on railway ties and telephone poles.
A provincial housewife and a married doctor meet at a railway station and subsequently fall in love.
I had the choice of a dingy subway leading south towards the delights of the town centre or a short walk to the railway station and a fast exit.
When establishment railway transportation brand strategy, may establish the brand in administrative levels.
A flasher has indecently exposed himself to two teenage girls in Broadway as they cycled near a disused railway bridge.
Some people were beginning to wonder who was in charge and for whose benefit the railway was being run. Times, Sunday Times
Steam railways had their heyday in the 19 th century.
Hundreds of rail enthusiasts have helped to secure the future of a Royal Train carriage at the National Railway Museum in York.
Their many satisfied customers include gas and electricity companies, motor manufacturers, circuit board makers and steam railway maintenance organisations.
After a sometimes bad-tempered meeting on Monday, they also agreed, however, that an area east of the main railway line and surrounding Headbourne Worthy should be excluded from the recommendation.
Police have now warned that gates guarding the railway crossing should be kept closed at all times to try to prevent a repeat of the tragic accident.
Tongpu Railway and the North Pacific Highway crossing.
Easy access to a railway network weighed heavily with us when we chose a site for the new factory.
But the London to Birmingham railway bypassed it in 1838, and a loop line to Birmingham was only established in 1872.
These beautiful fish have been found in railway cuttings, brick pits and building sites across Sydney, particularly back in the days when excavations were done mostly by hand.
It was the first underground railway anywhere. Times, Sunday Times
His clinic is near the newly - built railway station.
Investment in the railway network would reduce overcrowding on the roads.
He did promote several big shows there but the Docklands was out of the way of Central London and West End theatreland, not then served by the light railway.
But these places are not dirtier than a railway smoking-car; and there is no more coarseness than in any ferryboat which is, for whatever reason, used by men only. Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays
Meet local people from Thetford's past, from the revolutionary philosopher Thomas Paine to the Sikh hero Maharajah Duleep Singh and from rabbit warreners to railway workers.
Industries often had to fight for the right to have their own siding since the railway preferred to concentrate cars in one place on team tracks.
This is the former goods yard on the south-west side of the railway beyond Hellifield station.
The bed of the railway track is mainly limestone ballast, with ash on the outer margins.
The magnitude of the early railway works was enhanced by the severe limitation the engineers placed upon themselves as regards gradients.
Labourers were found in the docks, railways, factories and domestic spheres, many of them employed on a casual basis.
I say funnily enough because right across the road from the railway station is The Daily Planet which the time was Australia's largest brothel.
It originally extended over the full width of the Railway between the boundary walls.
The bus passed by the edge of the railway station and turned north.
His practical experience as a railwayman caused him to look with a more critical eye on railway administration both before and after privatisation.
The book takes a nostalgic look at the golden age of the railway.
The British government is expected to reject the idea of state subsidy for a new high speed railway.
The railway line was closed because of subsidence.
From here the visitors were taken outside to the railway siding where railway trucks would deliver the raw materials and despatch the completed wireless telegraphy equipment.
Meanwhile dangerous icicles hanging from a railway bridge in Harrogate caused concern and were reported to Railtrack to be removed.
Two of the steam trains have been loaned to other railways.
Down below, a mile, perhaps, a rocky point juts out into the river, up above another, so this forms a kind of indentation, an exclusive sort of bay for the dwellers therein, and the whole rather aristocratic settlement is put down on the railway map as Grandon Park. Floyd Grandon's Honor
The steamship and the railway, the legacy of the colonial past and the expansive power of commerce make this inevitable.
Once in Brazil he took passage on the old Madeira-Mamoré railway, a steam locomotive that ran two hundred miles through the forest to Porto Velho, then a small Brazilian trading center on the upper Madeira River. One River
By 1850 Totton had a railway station and a spur line ran to Eling quay.
A section of the report looks into reopening Otley Railway Station.
The government recently nationalized the railways.
Helped by railwaymen, lorry drivers and workers in the power industry, they won a magnificent victory.
The privatisation of the railways led to a similar leap in demand for interim managers. Times, Sunday Times
Since the existing potential danger of currently adopted loop distribution network in railway station and yard, the paper raises some improving measures for it with referencing to practical operation.
My dad worked on the railways his whole life and my grandad was a miner - I wouldn't say i was typically middle class, no. Is It Something I Said (Part 2)
The report is full of recommendations such as this: unsensational ideas that would make our railways safer.
The Labour government will not renationalise the railways.
There would then be a period of practical training on the track, using close personal supervision involving experienced railwaymen from Jarvis.
Heavy snow blocked roads and railways and brought down telegraph lines in many areas. Times, Sunday Times
I encourage all concerned locals to support them at Lismore railway station this Sunday.
Rail enthusiasts with a cool £1.5m to spare could find themselves owning their own railway - as well as a chunk of steam history.
If caught, the man could face charges of railway trespass and endangering his own safety. The Sun
Regional railways simply cannot compete with cheap, efficient and flexible motor transport.
The new salary deal for railway workers will be a bench mark for pay settlements in the public sector.
Indeed George Stephenson originally envisaged the railway system as an extension of the colliery system.
Heavy industry was expanded originally to meet these national defence needs before a single railway line was constructed. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
They also want crossings illuminated when being used and railway vehicles to have reflective markings.
Lancashire Railways is the first Wallace train game I played and it was obvious from the start that the man has an affinity for the choo-choos.
Basal Establishment and Public Utility Items We will construct ports, railway, highway, bridges and so on.
The company's tentacles spread from car manufacturing to railways.
Guyana's railways were previously owned by private companies.
This means there's investment in railways and bus terminals as well as increased spending on display signs for motorways and parking.
The railway station clock ticked away the hours of waiting.
At one time his father had a pub and grocery business, situated near a large Dublin railway terminus.

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