Sentence examples for us railways from inspiring English sources

The Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (passed soon after a train-on-train collision in Chatsworth, California, killed 25) originally mandated the installation of PTC systems on all US railways by the end of last year.

December 2015 is the deadline to outfit more than 600,000 miles of US railways with PTC, but experts say that it is unlikely that the deadline will be met for one reason - a steep price tag - about $10bn £6.35bnn).

In 2014, 141 spills occurred along US railways — an all-time annual high.

The amount of oil carried on US railways has increased 40-fold in the last eight years, according to the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental nonprofit that advocates for green energy and environmental protections.

Tragically, the strike had already been settled by this time, management and the government caving in - Churchill himself declared "They have beaten us". Railway workers had already achieved most of their demands with regard to pay and conditions before the events at the western crossing.

It brought us the railways, which were fiercely resisted by rural communities and powerful landowners.

Ben Hogg, marketing manager at UK distributor Esdevium Games (which imports the US-produced railway adventure Ticket to Ride, among many other titles) estimates that growth at closer to 35%.

Just beyond the cruise terminal, John showed us the railway station he helped run for a quarter century — or at least, he showed us the empty space where the station used to be.

Another informed me: "Paxman says that if you don't like us, why don't you give us back our railways?" I had no idea if Paxman had uttered these words, or if the man wished he had (given that there seemed to be an urgency to the message he was passing on), so I sighed and responded: "But that isn't a particularly productive approach.

"Record numbers of passengers are now using the railway and they tell us that what they want is reliable, frequent services with space to sit or stand".

There's a longing here for the days when a genuine wonder and respect for progress sent us scampering to the railways to wave at the choo-choo trains as they chuffed merrily by, transporting lavishly bustled ladies and bowler-doffing gentlemen and poor, bludgeoned Mr Briggs to a braver, better future.