Sentence examples for railways are based on from inspiring English sources

Our railways are based on the 1970s; much of our utility networks are based on the last century; and we have an urgent need to build 300,000 houses per year to tackle our housing crisis.

"It is acknowledged that many of the stories in the Railway Series are based on actual events.

Another concern is that maglev railway projects are based on proprietary technology, making operators dangerously dependent on a single supplier, says Dagmar Blume of Bombardier, which dropped out of the consortium building the Shanghai line.

Whether using static or dynamic evaluation, the research and development of high-speed railway catenary evaluation are based on the establishment and improvement of the current high-speed railway '6C' system in China.

Although there are different ways to reduce the noise generated by a railway wheel, most devices are based on the mechanism of increasing wheel damping.

The Talyllyn Railway is represented in the Railway Series books by the Reverend W. Awdry and the spin-off TV series Thomas & Friends as the Skarloey Railway; most of the fictional locomotives are based on real-life equivalents.

"[Crewe's] benefits are based on the Victorian connectivity of the railway, but we're not living in Victorian times now," he said.

Class 71 and 73 are based on the Swedish X2, built by Kalmar Verkstad KVAB for the Swedish State Railways, and introduced in 1990.

The safety assessment of railway axles is based on a two-stage approach: fatigue strength design and regular inspections which, in terms of a general safety philosophy refer to safe-life and damage tolerance concepts.

Nowadays, the most widely used communication system between trains and the elements involved in operation, control, and intercommunication within the railway infrastructure is based on the Global System for Mobile (GSM Communicationss.

For the railway infrastructure, inspection is based on the traffic volume and the line speed.