Examples of railway in a Sentence
a system of railways that crisscrosses the whole nation
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At least 15 people have been killed and 18 were injured after a funicular railway in Lisbon, Portugal, derailed on Wednesday.
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Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Maintenance for the railway has been outsourced to an external contractor since 2011 and has been handled by MAIN - Maintenance Engineering since 2022.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
Eyewitnesses reported seeing one of the railway’s two cars derailing and careening down the street before hitting a building.
—Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
The cable railway systems, commonly found in countries such as Colombia and Italy, are on tracks or suspended from the air.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
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Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Maintenance for the railway has been outsourced to an external contractor since 2011 and has been handled by MAIN - Maintenance Engineering since 2022.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
Eyewitnesses reported seeing one of the railway’s two cars derailing and careening down the street before hitting a building.
—Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
The cable railway systems, commonly found in countries such as Colombia and Italy, are on tracks or suspended from the air.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
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“Railway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/railway. Accessed 7 Sep. 2025.
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railway
noun
rail·way
ˈrā(ə)l-ˌwā 
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