How do you use Railtrack in a sentence? See 8 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Railtrack meaning
Alternative spelling of rail track.
Using Railtrack
- The main meaning on this page is: Alternative spelling of rail track.
- In the example corpus, railtrack often appears in combinations such as: company railtrack.
Context around Railtrack
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 0 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Railtrack
- In this selection, "railtrack" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, company, litigation, owning, shareholders, imposed and resisted stand out and add context to how "railtrack" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and owning railtrack plc and compensation litigation railtrack shareholders formed. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "railtrack" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with railtrack
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Railtrack, the privatised company managing the infrastructure, became a byword for disaster. (12 words)
Compensation Litigation Railtrack shareholders formed two groups to press for increased compensation. (12 words)
In February 1999 the company launched a bond issue which caused a significant fall in Railtrack's share price. (19 words)
A major programme of remedial work on the West Coast Main Line started in 1997 and finished in 2009, and was criticised for being over budget and behind schedule and reducing the specification from that originally proposed by Railtrack. (39 words)
Railtrack resisted regulatory action to improve its performance, and as the regulator probed ever more deeply, serious shortcomings in the company's stewardship of the network were revealed. (28 words)
Following this, the rail infrastructure company Railtrack imposed over 1,200 emergency speed restrictions across its network and instigated an extremely costly nationwide track replacement programme. (26 words)
Example sentences (8)
Railtrack, the privatised company managing the infrastructure, became a byword for disaster.
A major programme of remedial work on the West Coast Main Line started in 1997 and finished in 2009, and was criticised for being over budget and behind schedule and reducing the specification from that originally proposed by Railtrack.
Compensation Litigation Railtrack shareholders formed two groups to press for increased compensation.
Following this, the rail infrastructure company Railtrack imposed over 1,200 emergency speed restrictions across its network and instigated an extremely costly nationwide track replacement programme.
In February 1999 the company launched a bond issue which caused a significant fall in Railtrack's share price.
Railtrack resisted regulatory action to improve its performance, and as the regulator probed ever more deeply, serious shortcomings in the company's stewardship of the network were revealed.
The parent company, Railtrack Group plc, was not put into administration and continued operating its other subsidiaries, which included property and telecommunications interests.
Transfer of assets to Network Rail Network Rail was formed with the principal purpose of acquiring and owning Railtrack plc.
Common combinations with railtrack
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: