Sentence examples for overhead railways from inspiring English sources

FOR many people Chicago is the quintessential American city, an extraordinary artefact in the middle of the heartland, where tall buildings reach for the heavens, overhead railways rattle above the sidewalks, politicians rule by machine and immigrants are fashioned into citizens of the world's first new nation.

But where Dvorak's late-19th-century America sang folk tunes and spirituals, Varèse, just 25 years later, was dancing to a new music of the machine age: the clanking of overhead railways, the hooting of foghorns on the Hudson river, the wail of police sirens all find their way into this huge urban symphony.

Last Saturday, a 24-year-old Moroccan man also suffered severe burns after touching an overhead railway cable.

Now the Thai capital has an air-conditioned overhead railway, and some journeys that used to take all morning can be made in ten minutes.

Last year, a leaked report by police investigators suggested that special forces troops had fired into the temple from their positions on an overhead railway line.

The man, believed to be from Morocco, died after touching a high-power wire among overhead railway cables while climbing on top of a train carriage.

The final stretch of New York's High Line opened on Saturday, completing a 15-year project that has transformed the once derelict overhead railway into an urban park.

The Loop, the central area defined by a ring of overhead railway tracks, has not gone the way of so many other big cities' business districts—soulless by day and deserted at night.

A good deal of uncredited TS Eliot - mainly drawn from the Four Quartets and matched to pictures of all kinds of unlikely things, such as the Liverpool Overhead Railway and tugboats.

There's nostalgic film of holiday excursions across the Mersey to New Brighton, of journeys on the overhead railway along the docks, and an exotic newsreel of Margaret Lockwood, Gregory Peck, Jack Hawkins and other stars attending a gala film show at the glamorous Ritz, Birkenhead, and poignant clips of the King's Liverpool Regiment embarking for Korea in 1952.

But a thick mist over Liverpool in the morning prevented them from landing, and so the boys had to exchange a tour of Liverpool's dockland, University, Cathedral, overhead railway, and other places of interest for a visit to the Isle of Man, which included a trip along the T.T. course and a meeting with the famous rider, Geoffrey Duke.