Sentence examples for railways might from inspiring English sources

This week, the new finance minister, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, said the books were in such bad shape that work on roads and railways might have to stop.

The pioneers who bridged and bored their way through England to lay down its first railways might have winced if faced with Iran's endlessly peaked landscape.

The whole commission is known to have read it.The lottery decision will be a greater blow to his ego, but the verdict on the railways might hit his pocket more.

Our railways might be thought of as a giant state-owned and managed tower block, with a privatised penthouse at the top, in which the train operators disport themselves.

In 1825, William George Allen, council to Britain's first inter-city railway, the Liverpool and Manchester, predicted that railways might "prove of the greatest advantage to our trade and commerce; and which, if we do not adopt it, will be adopted by our rivals".

From the very outset our reticence, or perhaps lack of vision, of how a national program to rebuild our railways might impact our society was missing.

In the worst case, the railway might have to close and be taken away.

Could the Channel Tunnel Rail Link prove to be the awakening spark for some of that Victorian DNA, breeding and inspiring a new generation of British civil engineers while demonstrating that juxtaposition of the words British and railway might connote success rather than disaster?

At that time, railways to the north, west and southwest of Sydney had already been constructed, and a committee of prominent citizens formed to investigate the idea felt that a railway might help to develop agricultural and mining potentials in the Illawarra.

The Liverpool and Manchester Railway had opened the previous year, and proved a remarkable success in abstracting traffic from the parallel canal, and indicated that longer distances, not merely feeders to a harbour or from a colliery, could be dealt with, and everywhere business people were considering where a railway might advantageously be built next.

There were to be "vertical railways" (we might now call them elevators) to the summit, and a giant clock halfway up.