How to Use railway in a Sentence

railway

noun
  • On the train to Kyiv, I was struck by how many fresh graveyards lined the railway tracks.
    Jens Stoltenberg, Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2023
  • Following the crash near railway tracks, the bus caught on fire.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Record-breaking bridges The world’s tallest railway bridge is set to open in India at the end of this year.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 6 May 2023
  • The railway — the highest in the U.S. — recently had a $100 million glow up.
    Lori Rackl, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2023
  • His book about railways won the German Non-Fiction Prize in 1978.
    Sam Roberts, New York Times, 4 May 2023
  • One of the 12 was dead, and three others were hospitalized, the railway said.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • At the time, they were photographed sharing a kiss while at the Gare du Nord railway station in Paris.
    Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2023
  • But nowadays, the old railway has been reclaimed and turned into a trail.
    Hazlitt, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Smoke could be seen rising from the side of a railway station, Andriushchenko said.
    Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 27 May 2023
  • So he’s being hit by as soft a thing as you can be hit by that’s gonna be hanging by a railway line in 1944.
    Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 July 2023
  • Alaska had a railway line from Seward to Nenana, to which the serum was shipped and picked up by the first dog musher.
    Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2023
  • Dzhankoy is a key hub for Russians using roads and railways about 50 miles south of the Ukrainian mainland.
    Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The majority come from out of state, trickling in by sky, sea and railway.
    Seward Hospitality, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Milano Centrale is the city’s largest railway station, with trains heading to and from the rest of Italy, as well as France and Switzerland.
    Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 25 Mar. 2024
  • According to the outlet, the pair were spotted chatting and sharing a kiss at the Gare du Nord railway station.
    Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2023
  • This is the latest in a string of railway incidents making headlines.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • There are likely no other agreements or restrictions like it that the railway has had to work around.
    Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The railway was best known for its non-stop route between London and Edinburgh, Scotland, and its high-speed trains.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The railways have carried more than 40 million passengers and huge amounts of cargo since the war began.
    Svitlana Vlasova, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The city is located in southeastern Ukraine, behind the main eastern and southern front lines in the war, and includes a railway hub.
    Reuters, NBC News, 1 May 2023
  • Demonstrators have been pouring onto the streets in the wake of the deadly crash, with widespread anger over the country’s railway safety record.
    Andrew Torgan, CNN, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The city is still working with local landowners, one of the largest being the BNSF railway, to acquire the real estate needed to complete the project.
    The Arizona Republic, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Firefighters cut their way into the railway car to fight the blaze, which destroyed the car’s contents, fire officials said.
    Maeve Lawler, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The killings and the van attack occurred a short distance from the city’s university and central railway station.
    Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
  • Among their primary targets were two bridges that held up a vital railway across Greece.
    Myke Cole and Michael Livingston, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Then, an alert sent to railway operators is mere kilobytes in size.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Under the False Claims Act, the railway could be eligible for 15% to 25% of any amount recovered by the government.
    Matthew Brown and Amy Beth Hanson, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
  • The railway – once the lifeblood of this crossroads town, and a big employer – is not yet working again, because of damage to the lines, and proximity to the fighting.
    Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Back in the 1800s, when millions of cattle roamed wild Texas land and ranches, Fort Worth was the middle stopping point on the long journey to the railways and markets in the Midwest and beyond.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The concept of ‘railway madmen’ emerged, with the belief that the motion and sounds of train travel could trigger madness in passengers.
    Larry Magid, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2024

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