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    railway


    1. He holds services in the local pubs and is chaplain to both the local college and the steam railway which runs nearby


    2. ‘Yes, it’s the line of the old railway – it’s been turned into a bridleway


    3. ’ Nick told me in response to my question about where the railway line went originally


    4. Encouraged by his matter of fact tone, I put into words the thoughts I had while I was walking along the railway walk


    5. The policeman who’d been here when she arrived had implied that it was more attempted murder than a mugging … seemed to think that she’d been deliberately left on the railway line


    6. ‘A hiker found you … near the railway track


    7. Kara reckoned it was a walk of two miles, three at most, from the side street where the Association was sited to the railway station and she had a good two hours in which to cover the distance


    8. This relatively civilized introduction to importuning went on for a few minutes more until interrupted by the approach of two railway policemen


    9. The railway official avoided controversy


    10. 'Early morning in a railway station

    11. minutes more until interrupted by the approach of two railway


    12. The tables were dressed in linen and set with white china place settings, accented with silverware bearing the engraved initials of the Union Pacific Railway on each piece


    13. The brief railway trip to Birmingham was uneventful, as was the even more brief hop down to Redditch


    14. I only get to see daylight properly at the weekends and feel like a pit pony at times, but the real bonus on those mornings when there is no cloud, is that I get to see the most wonderful sunrises as I travel along the railway line


    15. He concluded his morning meeting with heads of departments and rushed home to fetch Harry along to the railway depot for an impromptu trip back to the college


    16. (Formerly the local offices of the Union Pacific Railway before its relocation due to partial destruction in the fire of '82


    17. Actually he was working nearer Gilgandra where he usually spent most Friday evenings drinking at the Railway Hotel


    18. One of Babs’ hobbies was a scale railway that meandered through his estate


    19. This large country contains one of the world’s best-run (and completely state-funded) railway – SNCF


    20. Yes indeed! Away with everyday traffic jams, be gone tiresome railway waiting rooms and congested bus terminals, with DOCTOR GLORIA PLANKTON's new flying course it's Hello Blue Skies as you soar gracefully through the heavens like something that soars gracefully through the heavens quite a lot

    21. I disembarked at a small railway station on Salisbury plain and got a lift from a farmer to a spot close to the camp


    22. The battalion moved out and entrained at Salisbury railway station and set off for the crossing destinations the majority of the Battalion would cross for France by way of Folkestone-Boulogne


    23. railway we found ourselves back at Southampton where we joined the transport ship ‘Archimedes’


    24. We lined up in ranks dressing off under the watchful eyes of the Provost Corpsmen our transport had already set off making for the railway station a Rail Transport Officer rode up on his horse


    25. We marched through the town making for the railway station and marshalling yards I had no idea why we did this as trains could pull up right on the quay


    26. We were down at the railway station early the following morning we had breakfast around five and marched down to the station about six and then we spent the next three hours waiting for the train to arrive


    27. When the train could eventually move we did near enough a right angle turn and joined the railway heading further into Picardy we passed through Forges-le-Eaux on our way to Amiens and the Somme area


    28. King's Cross, and the tall gothic masterpiece of St Pancras station, evidence of eras - the canal era, and the railway era close behind it


    29. The canal and railway revolutions had left


    30. Later on we reached Albert and we marched into it under a railway arch that led into the town the further in we got the more we could see that it had taken a real pasting from artillery fire

    31. We moved along through the ruins of Albert then out over the railway line on the far side of the town and as we marched along we saw the transport move another couple of inches


    32. The surreptitious idling around the Chester railway station or


    33. We were in a siding waiting for an ammunition train to pass us on its way to the front we were once again being transported in the lice infested wagons of the French railway system


    34. I stood up but my legs were a bit shaky to say the least I looked at the station and could see that it had not been used for years the building was dilapidated and there were no railway lines just grass and overgrown brambles


    35. I noted that the village was in the same state of repair as the station and it must have been abandoned some time ago why I have no idea maybe the railway link was closed in the 60s by Beecham and the hamlet just faded away with no easy way to get to the major towns and cities


    36. The Nationalists met with the terrorists in a railway car in the middle of the Victoria Falls railway bridge


    37. I greeted him with a salute and a hearty handshake and asked him to convey my heartfelt thanks to the others and headed towards the railway station


    38. There were thousands of people at the main railway station in Moscow, men, women, children and old people, many with large packages


    39. From the NKWD headquarters, we went straight to the main railway station where I bought first-class tickets to Moscow for everyone


    40. It was just me and God, laying there all alone, waiting for the wheelchair brigade to move us out; and line us up with the rest of the shipment at the railway siding in the village

    41. Five minutes later, as the train was roaring through the various railway tunnels of Waverley Station an irate inspector asked Stuart for his ticket


    42. The day was fine, and all around him was the yellow hawthorn flowering that consumed the railway edges and paths


    43. Coming down from Milngavie Railway Station, he was met with a map of the town and a small green arrow that pointed towards the West Highland Way


    44. The dummy was trying get away from us by crossing the river sort of tight rope walking on the lower span of a rusting railway trestle


    45. Because the priority of the occupation forces was the restoration of the country’s railway system, roads were a secondary consideration, and not well suited to significant long-distance travel


    46. Arrival by motor transport followed a different route than the railway that Colling had used when he departed Frankfurt, and it required stopping and asking directions several times before they found their way to the rail yards where the quartermaster warehouse was located


    47. Communist partisans still controlled the northern mountains, and it was only because of the guerrillas’ connections with the Italian railway labor unions that rail travel moved relatively unscathed


    48. As he was trying to make out its unit markings, he realized that it was British, and wondered why it was so far from the railway depot and any obvious road


    49. Inside, Colling lifted a battered coffepot from the coal stove in one end of the third-class railway car and poured himself a mug of what he discovered was bitter-tasting ersatz brew


    50. The trucks were driven off the railway cars, and Major Pritchard squeezed into the Henschel that contained his cargo, while his sergeant rode in the other














































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    Synonyms for "railway"

    railroad railroad track railway railroad line railway line railway system

    "railway" definitions

    line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight


    a line of track providing a runway for wheels