Sentence examples for converging railways from inspiring English sources

Raised on handsome brick viaducts above the floodplain or sunk into cuttings through the rolling uplands, the converging railways form one of the most distinctive topographic features of south London.

Several passes through the Chiltern Hills are used by roads and railways converging on London.

Modern Lviv retains its nodal position, with several railways converging on the city.

Its prosperity resumed after 1880 with the converging of railways on the port and was stimulated during World Wars I and II with the installation of a huge naval and naval-air complex.

There are local railways for transporting sugarcane to the mills, and national railways converge on San Miguel de Tucumán, the province's principal city.

This new rail line connected the two principle railway systems converging on and serving the busy harbour of Portland.

Several important railways converge on Dublin city.

All the major railways converge in the region, and a high-speed train links Madrid city to Barcelona city.

Six of the country's seven biggest-earning railways converge there, and the city is still the hub for a staggering amount of trans-continental commerce.

Since all eight bus and coach routes, together with two trolleybuses (electric buses powered by overhead cables, foolishly withdrawn in 1959), the underground line and the suburban railway converged in or near the high street, the latter was an unusually busy thoroughfare for those days.

Today the relatively efficient and well-maintained transportation network relies heavily on roads, although railways also converge there from throughout the country.