Sentence examples for goods railways from inspiring English sources

Even the American Society of Civil Engineers, which howls incessantly (and predictably) about the awful state of the nation's infrastructure, shows grudging respect for goods railways in a recent report.The downturn has actually helped propel capital spending on everything from tracks to IT.

In 1803 a line was completed between Croydon and Wandsworth by the Surrey Iron Railway, the first public goods railway (with horse-drawn wagons).

A narrow gauge goods railway was constructed for the transportation of bricks to some of the major building sites in central Canberra.

The Summer Hill flour mill was built circa 1922, utilising the north-south goods railway line that was constructed during World War 1.

Manchester Liverpool Road was the world's first purpose-built passenger and goods railway station, and served as the Manchester terminus on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway – the world's first inter-city passenger railway.

It listed all the targets of the bombing, which included: the royal palace, the war ministry, military headquarters, the central post office, the telegraph office, passenger and goods railway stations, power stations and barracks.

The Metropolitan Railway (also known as the Met) was a passenger and goods railway that served London from 1863 to 1933, its main line heading north-west from the capital's financial heart in the City to what were to become the Middlesex suburbs.

Cardiff has very good railways but they don't really go to where these new sites are going to be.

"There is a very good railway network.

And if railways are good, railway stations are even better.

The town has good railway links, yet Paris feels a world away.