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is railway
noun
A track, consisting of parallel rails, over which wheeled vehicles such as trains may travel.
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Narrow gauge is railway jargon for tightrope, and the train careered drunkenly through the night.
"A place replete with shadowy shapes, this Mugby Junction in the black hours of the four-and-twenty," Dickens observes, in fine form as he always is when his subject is railway travel.
Last week Detective Constable Colin Saysell said: "Vandals like Mandell who commit graffiti offences often believe that their work is art – sadly, when the chosen canvas is railway property it cannot be considered art and is nothing more than wanton damage that costs thousands of pounds to clear up".
After airline tickets, the second biggest category is railway tickets the site sells 2,500 of them every day.
One of the most relevant noise problems is railway traffic which is dealt with by Working Group 6 (WG 6).
A possible application area for the well established automation theory is railway signalization, where formal methods are required to be used in order to comply with the related safety standards.
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Barry Hughes, Edinburgh The twisted logic of railway-speak Why is railway-speak (eg "arriving into Banbury", "adjacent to the doors", "disembarking the train") so different from normal English?
As before, it is railways that look most dubious.
That, however, would risk angering Mr Yadav, who is railways minister in the central government.
My relatives were railway workers and miners.
There are railway, aircraft, ship, and vehicle repair yards.
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