Sentence examples for railways I from inspiring English sources
The lack of planning and coordination between the two lines made the new station a large budget cost for the Meråker Line; and described as one of few exceptions to the small-and-cheap policy dominating the state railways i Norway at the time.
If the government really needs to spend £50bn on railways, I would give Manchester a proper underground tube, like proper big cities abroad, and do something for its dire regional road and rail links.
Another informed me: "Paxman says that if you don't like us, why don't you give us back our railways?" I had no idea if Paxman had uttered these words, or if the man wished he had (given that there seemed to be an urgency to the message he was passing on), so I sighed and responded: "But that isn't a particularly productive approach.
Purchasing contracts (not coincidentally) deserve urgent scrutiny (I am phrasing it like that for legal reasons).It's particularly annoying because other ex-communist countries do much better with their railways: I went on a train from Prague to Berlin the other day and it was almost as fast as flying, a lot cheaper and a great deal nicer.I don't see any sign yet of a big change though.
"I want to see freight continue to increase on our railways, I want to see more people using our railways but there's a big capacity problem".
In 1900, it was suggested in The Contemporary Review that the City Branch should be replaced with an electric deep-level railway (i.e. a 'tube' line) between Herne Hill and Farringdon in order to remove Blackfriars Railway Bridge, which the author considered to be a blight on the Thames.
Staten Island Cabooses Q.Sometimes, when I pass the Clifton station of the Staten Island Railway, I see two red cabooses there that seem old, but in good shape.
On the S-Bahn, the elevated railway, I rolled past Alexanderplatz, a 1970's Communist building project that resembles a French ski area, minus the mountain backdrop.
"As a second generation working on the Qinghai-Tibet railway, I want to know if they're going to change employee benefits, if there will be new developments in terms of culture, and if railway employees will benefit more," said Shandian zhangu deli'an on Sina Weibo, the country's biggest microblog.
He says: "For me to seek to try to communicate these incommunicable things I carried with me in consequence of being a child of the death railway, I had to find a story from hope, and love is the greatest expression of hope.
In Wendover – where the HS2 line will pass through the landscape on a 500m viaduct, making the nearby Chiltern main line look like a model railway – I arrive at the Shoulder of Mutton pub to meet a deputation of six anti-HS2 activists, five of whom voted Conservative at the election, but now say they will think seriously about other options.
