Sentence examples for fictional railway from inspiring English sources
The underground railroad was a fictional railway line that brought fugitive slaves and their families from below the Mason-Dixon line to upstate New York, where they felt safe, or even to Canada if it was felt that their pursuers were prepared to spend a lot of money to get them back.
The fictional Skarloey Railway, which formed part of the Railway Series of children's books by The Rev. W. Awdry, was based on the Talyllyn Railway.
A quintessentially English, poorly educated, working-class war veteran with social and intellectual aspirations, whose fictional address 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam perfectly conjures the aspirant bleakness of London's suburbs (as if Cheam were significant enough a spot to have an East).
A quintessentially English, poorly educated, working-class war veteran with social and intellectual aspirations, whose fictional address — 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam — perfectly conjures the aspirant bleakness of London's suburbs (as if Cheam were significant enough a spot to have an East).
Scenes were shot in a Mail Rail depot mocked up to be fictional Vatican secret railway Poste Vaticane.
Treading in fictional form the same territory and terrors as Eric Lomax's The Railway Man, Flanagan's novel also nods to Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and Tobias Wolff's In Pharaoh's Army.
The fictional family bore strong similarities to Franzen's own, his father a railway engineer, his mother a housewife, although, he says, as "writing becomes more autobiographical, the less it hews to actual lived experience.
A man travelling in France sits by chance in a railway carriage with a woman he has not seen before; he is reading a novel set in a fictional provincial French town; when she gets off the train, he sees that her luggage is marked with that address.
Some fictional land, surely?
Fictional crime remains popular.
