Definition of railway
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Examples of railway in a Sentence
a system of railways that crisscrosses the whole nation
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India is trying to preserve its own sphere of influence in South Asia through projects such as building roads and bridges in Bangladesh, hydroelectric plants in Nepal and ports and railways in Sri Lanka.
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Beijing has built railways, ports, and roads in exchange for raw materials that have powered its economic and, consequently, political rise.
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Computers were disabled at banks, government agencies, energy companies, supermarkets, railways and telecommunications providers.
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By many measures, the effort to convert old elevated railway on Chicago’s Northwest Side into a signature park has been a smashing success.
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Rides and attractions such as Shoot the Chutes, a miniature railway, and Wavy Gee Whiz ride, were added along with shooting galleries and an aerial circle swing.
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There are many ways of seeing landscape quite as good; and none more vivid, in spite of canting dilettantes, than from a railway train.
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In Belgium, 16,000 solar panels were installed on the roof of 2 miles of covered railway between Antwerp and Amsterdam to provide power for commuter trains and a station.
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What is now the site of the Dakpark, a dike in a poor, largely immigrant neighborhood bordering industrial waterfront, once was a railway switching station, a grim nowhere place abutting a cluster of social housing blocks.
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First Known Use of railway
1681
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