Sentence examples for lines of rail from inspiring English sources

In this second phase the British, under Lords Kitchener and Roberts, relieved the besieged towns, beat the Boer armies in the field, and rapidly advanced up the lines of rail transportation.

He followed the glinting parallel lines of rail and river on a relentless, plodding journey past a monotonous landscape that seemed as immune to the seasons of the East as it was forbidding to all but the hardiest of plant or animal life.

The minute the train slides out of the station you're plunged into a nocturnal ballet of continuously converging parallel lines of rails, shimmering lights and endless tunnel.

Although in an isolated rural area, Parkside station had been designed as a junction station and water stop for proposed connections with the Wigan Branch Railway and the Bolton and Leigh Railway, and had multiple lines of rails in place.

Well over half the population lives in the areas along the Line of Rail.

The non-Bantu population tends to be located in the towns and the commercial farming community and is concentrated in areas that coincide with the Line of Rail.

During the cold months (June and July), the area west of the Line of Rail is coolest, with mean minimum temperatures mostly below the mid-40s F (about 7 °C).

There is still some relationship between the distribution of major ethnic groups and the administrative division of the country into its predominantly rural provinces and the provinces along the Line of Rail.

The settlers were given fertile land along the Line of Rail while Africans were resettled in less fertile areas, a situation that has changed to some degree because of land reform programs.

The country's large-scale commercial farms are mainly located along the Line of Rail and are predominately owned and operated by European settlers and their descendants, a pattern that dates back to colonial days when African males were recruited to work the copper mines while European settlers were brought in to work the fields.

Amid the Scramble for Africa during the 1880s, the South African-based businessman and politician Cecil Rhodes envisioned the annexation to the British Empire of a bloc of territory connecting the Cape of Good Hope and Cairo respectively at the southern and northern tips of Africa and the concurrent construction of a line of rail linking the two.