Explore Railway through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like railroad or line. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
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Railway meaning
- A transport system using rails used to move passengers or goods.
- A track, consisting of parallel rails, over which wheeled vehicles such as trains may travel.
Using Railway
- The main meaning on this page is: A transport system using rails used to move passengers or goods. | A track, consisting of parallel rails, over which wheeled vehicles such as trains may travel.
- Useful related words include: railroad, railroad line, railway line, railway system.
- In the example corpus, railway often appears in combinations such as: the railway, railway station, western railway.
Example sentences (20)
Now, the revitalised FR 20 resides at the Furness Railway Trust's shed at the Ribble Steam Railway, having recently returned from tours at the Didcot Railway Centre and Blaenavon’s Heritage Railway.
Tickets are being accepted on London Underground, Docklands Light Railway, London buses, local buses, Thameslink, Southeastern Railway, South Western Railway and Chiltern Railways 'by any reasonable route'.
The railway ministry has allocated Rs70 crore for the Rayagada Railway Division in Odisha under the East Coast Railway Zone, officials said Friday.
As of now railway has already implemented the scheme in 15 of its zones with the Northereast Frontier Railway and West Central Railway being the remaining two zones.
Railway passengers staged a protest today blocking the street opposite the Fort railway station as railway trade unions staged a lightning strike today.
Spearheading this rail infrastructure drive are China Railway Group and CRC, which was involved in the construction of the Tanzam Railway between Tanzania and Zambia, and the $8.3 billion Nigerian Railway Modernization Project.
Greenwich Mean Time was adopted across the island of Great Britain by the Railway Clearing House in 1847, and by almost all railway companies by the following year, from which the term "railway time" is derived.
Railways The railway in the Guiana Space Centre A short railway is used within the Guiana Space Centre (this short railway is for transporting spacecraft inside the base to the launch pad, not for passenger use).
The Agartala-Akhaura rail-link between Indian Railway and Bangladesh Railway will reduce the current 1700 km road distance between Kolkata to Agartala via Siliguri to just 350-kilometer by railway.
The railway reached Dover from two directions: the South Eastern Railway's main line connected with Folkestone in 1844, and the London, Chatham and Dover Railway opened its line from Canterbury in 1861.
The site includes the Albula and the Bernina Railway and is listed because of the complex railway engineering (tunnels, viaducts and avalanche galleries) necessary to take the narrow-gauge railway across the main chain of the Alps.
Acting Chief Executive Daniel Zolfel said the event was an opportunity to celebrate the railway's reopening and pay homage to the railway line's history.
Aslef – which represents 96 per cent of train drivers in England, Scotland and Wales – announced that workers with 15 companies, including Chiltern Railway, CrossCountry and Great Western Railway (GWR), had voted to take industrial action.
Bengaluru News Live Updates: PM Modi inaugurated the world's largest railway platform in Hubballi's Siddhaarooda railway station.
But due to the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, the idea did not take off and the Railway Inspectorate continued to function under the control of the Railway Board.
Canadian National Railway () (TSE:CNR) – Stock analysts at Desjardins cut their Q2 2023 earnings estimates for shares of Canadian National Railway in a report released on Tuesday, April 25th.
China State Railway Group Co., the national railway operator, aims to transport 2.69 billion passengers in 2023, according to a statement by the company on Tuesday.
Darren Caplan, Railway Industry Association chief executive said that many of the Railway Industry Association’s members were extremely disappointed by the decision to scrap HS2 between Birmingham and Manchester.
DuPage Rail Safety Council Chair Lanny Wilson is flanked by local mayors and lawmakers as he outlines concerns about a merger of Canadian Pacific Railway and Kansas City Southern Railway.
Great Western Railway (GWR) is reporting severe delays into and out of London due to heavy rain flooding the railway at Swindon, meaning lines are blocked.
Common combinations with railway
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the railway 72×
- railway station 51×
- western railway 17×
- railway and 17×
- railway line 16×
- railway in 12×
- central railway 10×
- of railway 9×
- railway stations 9×
- railway is 8×