Sentence examples for railways carriages from inspiring English sources

To do this he had employed every means of conveyance — steamers, railways, carriages, yachts, trading-vessels, sledges, elephants.

Horsecars were also early railway carriages drawn by horses.

The seats in that dayroom were like seats taken from old-fashioned motorcars or railway carriages.

Some of the shacks began life as railway carriages; off the rails, now taken root.

Stay in a collection of old railway carriages at the Red Caboose Motel (redcaboosemotel.com), in Strasburg.

Japan has had women-only railway carriages on and off since 1912.

When he was a university teacher – one of a handful of blacks at that time – he travelled each day with workers in crowded third-class railway carriages.

Clad with tarred shingles and resembling a group of sheds, it sits among railway carriages and fishermen's huts on the vast beach at Dungeness.

There are rules to help out: railway carriages that are supposed to be mobile-free, pubs and bars that don't have Muzak.

Railway carriages, like schools, were segregated, in a British version of apartheid: first-class for Europeans; second-class for Indians; and third-class for Africans.

He was a fiercely private man who liked to book entire railway carriages for himself, even when travelling with his family.