Sentence examples for off the railway from inspiring English sources

But first we were fed and watered, and rested in a couple of old wagons that giant cranes had now lifted off the railway lines.

That of 1928 cut off the railway around the base of the mountain and buried the village of Mascali.

He said the coalition's plans to raise fares over the next five years would "force many families off the railway".

A bomb, alleged to be Chinese, went off on the railway track near Mukden (Shenyang) and gave the signal for a surprise Japanese attack on the Chinese Nationalist garrison and arsenal in the city.

Now comes China Railway Telecom, created by splitting the telecommunications division off of the railway ministry.

Stockbrokers and the government's Royal Mail share sale website have been overwhelmed by demand from the public keen to buy shares in the biggest privatisation since John Major sold off the railways in the 1990s.

Mick Cash, RMT acting general secretary of the RMT rail union, said: "People will simply be priced off the railways while the greedy train operating companies are laughing all the way to the bank".

Selling off the railways was a bad idea in principle, as it transformed them from being a public service to a business, where the overriding aim was profit maximisation.

"We don't want to sell off the railways, what we want to do is introduce competition.

Supporters of privatisation are in denial about the consequences of the railway sell-off, which they enthusiastically urged in the 1990s.

England is cut off, and the railway paralysed; their train has been delayed.