Sentence examples for railways on the from inspiring English sources

The late 1830s and early 1840s had seen increased competition between the Bridgewater Canal on the one hand, and other canal companies and the railways on the other.

And we have the safest railways on the continent.

We have had strikes on the railways, on the London underground and in art galleries, as well as many in construction and other private sectors.

Its prosperity resumed after 1880 with the converging of railways on the port and was stimulated during World Wars I and II with the installation of a huge naval and naval-air complex.

More significantly, the structure of our railways – with private operators running trains and Network Rail managing track and stations – means overall industry costs are up to 40% higher than wholly publicly owned and integrated railways on the continent.

Labour is opposing the sale of the east coast mainline and has indicated it would allow publicly owned companies to operate railways on the same terms as private companies.

The industries that apply Japanese concepts, as do the private railways (on the whole), do not suffer from resistance to change, even though their employees may know that the company is overstaffed.

The railways, on the other hand, have acquired the marketing brio of air carriers, offering a dizzying array of discounts and single-country passes that can be a better deal — or at least less tiring — than the classic Eurailpass, now weighing in at $975 (or a youth fare of $634) for the challenge of seeing up to 18 countries in 30 days.