railway

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The airport is part of the largest model railway in the world [1].

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Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of railway gathered in one view.

noun

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

noun

a line of track providing a runway for wheels; "he walked along the railroad track"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for railway.

noun

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

noun

a line of track providing a runway for wheels; "he walked along the railroad track"

Example sentences

The airport is part of the largest model railway in the world [1].

For example, you can put railway tracks up on pylons, too, with very little impact on the ground.

The US has the largest railway network in the world, in terms of total length of tracks and in tonnage of cargo.

I used to work in a railway museum and when we didn't have an engine in steam we'd do our shunting with crowbars.

I hope the plastic bags came pre-stamped, and with the railway's complaint department address printed on them.

And the soundwalls lining the surface parts of the railway line aren't that captivating either.

[...] you know, too unprofessional to be selling tickets at a railway \n station but reliable enough for landing robots on Mars.

The use of railways for transporting petroleum products is booming thanks to the backlash against pipelines such as keystone and gateway.

Pipelines spill less per unit of volume shipped and usually avoid populated centers to a much greater degree than railways.

Their system of public transportation relies a lot on connecting between bus/tram/subway/railway, but I never found the connections to work well.

Oil companies who are fearful of incurring public outrage due to pipeline spills are only too happy to hand tanker cars over to the care of railway workers.

The next time you see environmentalists protesting pipeline construction, ask them why they're not chaining themselves to their local railway tracks instead.

Can you imagine dumping 100lb of earth into a chinese one and tipping it out at the top of a hole - to build a canal or railway?They are fundementally different concepts.

Well it's actually the other way around, railway operators like Tokyu, Tobu, Odakyu or Keio playing the role of developers.

There are about five to six hundred books between where you are now and where you'd have to be in order to even start talking about designing an electric railway system for transporting cargo at >200mph.

The key advantages of a tube vs. a railway track are that it can be built above the ground on pylons and it can be built in prefabricated sections that are dropped in place and joined with an orbital seam welder.