railway
IPA: rˈeɪɫweɪ
noun
- (chiefly UK, Ireland and Commonwealth) A transport system using rails used to move passengers or goods.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland and Commonwealth) A track, consisting of parallel rails, over which wheeled vehicles such as trains may travel.
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Examples of "railway" in Sentences
- In a new country a railway is a colonizing factor.
- Besides, the transsiberian railway is already built?
- China has also invested heavily in railway electrification.
- It was a two day journey, mostly waiting in railway stations.
- For vegetables, get used to whatever it was they served in railway hotels back in the 1890s: jams, preserves, pickled everything.
- Oh, there are so many types of mountain railway, be it like the Cable Cars of San Francisco, or the balanced tramway of the Great Orme.
- New York City will soon be receiving a brand new stretch of green space as the once-abandoned High Line railway is renovated to become a
- The very fact, that the railway is a state-owned institution, and that every individual in Canada is a shareholder, makes that problem rather more difficult than if we were a privately-owned company.
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