Sentence examples for elevated rail line from inspiring English sources

In 1878, an elevated rail line was erected down the middle of the broad avenue.

A Second Avenue subway would replace the elevated rail line that still loomed over Third Avenue.

Plans call for the elimination of the elevated rail line along 12th Avenue, although the right of way would remain in place.

Then, in 1955, the elevated rail line came down, and the Bowery stood blinking in the full light of day for the first time in nearly eight decades.

An elevated rail line, linking Caloocan City and the city of Baclaran (to the south of Pasay City), was completed in 1984.

In Chicago, where a 2.65-mile elevated rail line slices through four residential areas, tearing down the line would be prohibitively costly.

In a town whose assumptions of status and class were turned topsy-turvy by nature, black men rescued white ladies from elevated rail lines and Italian immigrant snow shovelers became, if not actual heroes, at least wildly appreciated.

And in an old pub facing the Victorian brick arches of the elevated rail lines leading into Liverpool Street Station, three antiques dealers have created one of the trendiest restaurants in London, Les Trois Garçons.

The city is as large as New York, spread out in a seemingly haphazard fashion in every direction, crisscrossed by wide boulevards and the elevated rail lines of its superb transportation system.

The city eagerly adopted every transportation innovation: streetcars moved first by horses, then by means of underground cables, and finally by electricity were supplemented in the 1890s by the first elevated rail lines.

Meanwhile, officials were so confident the line would be built that they demolished elevated rail lines on Second and Third avenues, leaving the fast-growing Upper East Side of Manhattan with only one badly overcrowded subway on Lexington Avenue, two long blocks to the west.