How to Use railway in a Sentence

railway

noun
  • The railway could not give a time when the train would move.
    cleveland, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The strap snapped, and the truck tumbled down the hill onto the railway tracks.
    New York Times, 19 July 2021
  • The railway said all train traffic was stopped in the area.
    cleveland, 18 Nov. 2022
  • On the train to Kyiv, I was struck by how many fresh graveyards lined the railway tracks.
    Jens Stoltenberg, Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2023
  • The train wheels lift the front tires off the track while the rear wheels stay down to propel the DMV onto the railway.
    Reuters, CNN, 24 Dec. 2021
  • The monarch, 96, helped open a new railway named in her honor.
    Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 17 May 2022
  • The railway car was tricked out in all things lavender.
    Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
  • 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
  • Iran has some 8,700 miles of railway lines throughout the country that's about two and a half times the size of Texas.
    Nasser Karimi, USA TODAY, 8 June 2022
  • The railway said the train was waiting for a new crew, which would take more than 90 minutes.
    cleveland, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The cab stopped for a minute or so, waiting at a railway crossing.
    Longreads, 1 June 2021
  • The railway — the highest in the U.S. — recently had a $100 million glow up.
    Lori Rackl, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2023
  • Guardado said the city did put in a row of rocks along part of their alley next to the railway, to try to catch some of the water.
    Paige Fry, chicagotribune.com, 24 Dec. 2021
  • What is being done about a tender for a railway link to Ghana?
    Reuters, CNN, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The railway line from Taipei down the east coast is renowned for its tunnels and route that hugs the coast just north of Hualien where the crash occurred.
    NBC News, 2 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • Entering the town along the railway line, the heavy vehicles gouged deep paths through the fields.
    Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2022
  • By the time the troops pulled out at the end of March, two brothers, Yuriy and Viktor Pavlenko, who lived at the end of the street, lay dead in a ditch by the railway line.
    New York Times, 22 May 2022
  • His tent sits next to a growing puddle of water that trails down from the railway.
    Jordan Anderson, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
  • But nowadays, the old railway has been reclaimed and turned into a trail.
    Hazlitt, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The race was named after the world’s shortest railway at Bunker Hill in downtown L.A.
    John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2021
  • Smith and Havens also were the prime movers behind the famed Key System railway lines.
    George Avalos, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Smoke could be seen rising from the side of a railway station, Andriushchenko said.
    Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 27 May 2023
  • The railway company had no idea why the train was not moving.
    cleveland, 25 Sep. 2022
  • At the railway station, the Sichuan people were just like refugees or beggars. . . .
    Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Barcelona’s Camp Nou redevelopment is more delayed than the UK’s railway network.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 8 July 2025
  • The court also let federal agencies scale back their environmental reviews of projects in a case involving construction of a railway in Utah.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 5 July 2025

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