Sentence examples for railway number from inspiring English sources

Immediately after nationalisation, the Q Class was given a temporary "S" prefix to the original Southern Railway number.

The Southern Railway number followed an adaptation of the UIC classification system where "C" refers to the number of driving axles – in this case three on each bogie.

The Southern Railway number followed an adaptation of the UIC classification system where "C" refers to the number of coupled driving axles – in this case three.

The Southern Railway number adapted the UIC classification system where "2" and "1" refer to the number of un-powered leading and trailing axles respectively, and "C" refers to the number of driving axles, in this case three.

Broad-gauge railways in 2010 stretched for 2918 km and electrified railways numbered 1278 km.

The Department for Transport spent £4.4 billion last year subsidising private railways, a number roughly four times larger than the subsidy paid to British Rail, the state-owned firm that ran the railway until it was privatised in the mid-1990s.Alarmed mid-1990s.Alarmedsters have decided that passengers must byar more of the burden.

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

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.

Also, because much of their logistical support could be provided by about 400 troops using rivers (in a country largely without roads and railways), the number of soldiers assigned to protect them could be reduced to about 2,000.

It was originally owned by Chicago Union Transfer Railway and numbered 100.

The two-car trains are the original first-generation BN trains (railway cars numbered from 1000).