Sentence examples for railways about from inspiring English sources

The transport minister, Alain Vidalies, said he was seeking to settle the parallel dispute poisoning labour relations at the SNCF state railways about internal reorganisation of work practices.

We received notification from the Scandinavian railways about the cancellation of the night train between Malmo and Oslo too late to contact Ms. Levine-Silverman.

Railway just about built a new ground for the occasion, erecting three temporary stands at a cost of £40,000 to raise Station View's capacity to 3,500.

The railway is about 120 km long, and has a maximum grade of two percent and a minimum curve radius of 300 m.

The railway had about 30 steam locomotives, most of them six coupled, that ran with four-wheeled tenders with two water butts, each capable of holding 600 gallons of water.

The attitudes which affect annoyance with railway noise are not general ones about railways as transportation sources, but rather ones which are specific to the neighbourhood setting or to railways as environmental intrusions in the neighbourhood.

A typical Chinese apartment needs about six tonnes of steel and a kilometre of underground railway about 7,500 tonnes.

Shwebo is a rice-collecting centre on the railway about 50 miles (80 km) north-northwest of Mandalay.

Its significance declined, however, with the construction of the Ankara-Erzurum railway about 1900 and the development of the southern Iranian port of Khorramshahr.

Patrick Lambert, the chief of the Nantes Fire Department, told reporters that his crew had shut down the locomotive after fighting the fire and had informed the railway about its action.

Novelist Colson Whitehead won the National Book award for fiction for his novel The Underground Railway, about a slave who escapes from a cotton plantation in Georgia.