Sentence examples for railways by from inspiring English sources

On passenger railways, by contrast, the number of staff per train kilometres increased slightly.

Houston developed as a rail centre, with 12 railways by 1891.

Now, 20 months on, the overwhelming priority is to restore confidence in the railways by making them safe and efficient.

Similar support of intermodal development, for the same reasons, was subsequently provided for their national railways by the Austrian and Swiss governments.

Although deaths on the roads vastly outnumber deaths on the railways (by 3,423 to 33 in 1999) the railways command disproportionately high spending on safety.

Thailand's government intends to spend about 2 trillion baht ($64 billion) to upgrade the country's infrastructure, including its railways, by 2020.

World Bank Policy Research Working Papers, September 2004 "Railways and the Local Economy: Evidence from Qingzang Railway", by Yang Wang and Binzhen Wu.

Majority ownership of a railway by a foreign company is subject to the regulator's approval.

It is linked to the Cairo-Aswān railway by a bridge across the Nile River.

It is connected with the main Rome Naples railway by a branch line from Campoleone.

"Twelve Scenic Walks From the North Yorkshire Moors Railway" by J. Brian Beadle is available for about $3 from the Pickering Tourist Information Center, The Ropery, Pickering, North Yorkshire YO18 8DY, telephone (44-1751) 473791.