Sentence examples for railway engine from inspiring English sources

Can it be true that the profession of engineering has a relatively low status in the UK, compared to the Continent, because railway engine drivers used to be called engineers?

One was reminded of a schoolboy collecting railway engine numbers".

We have witnessed around two centuries of unimpeded acceleration since Stephenson's pioneering railway engine, Rocket, first took to the tracks in 1829.

While other boys avidly wrote down lists of railway engine numbers, or pasted exotic foreign stamps into their albums, my own efforts were half-hearted.

Not everyone will think a former railway engine shed, part amphitheatre, part hangar, the best choice for a work as graceful in its potency as Orfeo.

James Mudd's salted-paper prints of a factory yard and a steam locomotive, commissioned by a railway engine manufacturer in Manchester, document with somewhat fuzzy images industrial growth in the north of England.

The company was born in Hunslet, south Leeds in 1877, an area famous for supplying railway engines, printing presses and other engineering products.

Boris was known for his interest in science and technology, and he loved driving railway engines.

The first of the series, The Three Railway Engines (1945), captured the imaginations of British children and created a vast audience for Thomas's continuing adventures.

Sounds of railway engines accompany oral descriptions of the arrival of the Europeans, and the story of the Dutchman Jan Peek, for whom the town is named.

At the midtown Manhattan Lexicographers Club, E.M. Frimbo, the world's greatest railroad buff, talked with John Bunyon from near Walmer, in Kent, about steam cars, steam farm engines, steam railway engines, and steam engines for industrial purposes.