Sentence examples for railway from inspiring English sources

The word "railway" is correct and can be used in written English
You can use it when referring to a means of transportation, such as a train or tram, that travels along metal tracks. For example: "The railway station is located at the end of the street."

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railway

noun

A track, consisting of parallel rails, over which wheeled vehicles such as trains may travel.

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Sweaty, musical, melodramatic and political, Cairo Station stars ballsy writer-director Youssef Chahine as a homicidal newspaper seller in Cairo's vast railway station.

In an unusually frank speech to an audience of leading rail industry figures, Carne said: "While our passenger safety performance is the best in Europe, about 600 railway workers a year – employees and contractors – are injured to the extent that they cannot return to work the next day.

Network Rail has warned that meaningful cuts in its budget can only come at the expense of a smaller railway that will have to carry fewer passengers than the 1.3bn journeys it managed in 2009.

Already China has expressed interest in purchasing the port of Thessaloniki, Greece's state-run railway network and a majority stake in the other half of the port of Piraeus still under government control.

The relevant authorities claim that space is inevitably limited, and outmoded guide books and old railway timetables can be safely thrown away – though what is binned usually goes much further.

By 10am, after a short trip on the funicular railway, we were each sipping a cappuccino in the sun outside the Gran Café in the Piazzetta of Capri Town.

Why not create an atmospheric, wintry scene of your own using model railway figures and miniature Christmas trees?

As Russell walked through Glasgow Cross, he said, he saw the helicopter flying westwards over the Saltmarket main road and railway bridges that run parallel to it, only a few hundred metres east of the Clutha Vaults.

It's 10.30 on Sunday morning in the Richmal Crompton, a Wetherspoon's pub opposite Bromley South railway station.

Guaranteed railway shares absorbed up to a fifth of British portfolio investment in the 20 years to 1870 – the first line opened in 1853 – but only 1% of it originated in India.

About 50 or 60 elderly and disabled people turned up at Barnsley railway station determined to continue our campaign for free train travel by travelling without paying on the train.

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