Thesaurus results for RAILWAY

railway

noun

ˈrāl-ˌwā

Definition of railway

as in road

a roadway overlaid with parallel steel rails over which trains travel a system of railways that crisscrosses the whole nation

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Recent Examples of railway Automobile horns echoed here and there in the distance, and as the government railway train departed the station under the bridge, a string of small lights heralded the far-off clacking of its wheels. — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026 The railway manias left behind functioning rail networks, and the dot-com bubble left behind server and network infrastructure that made the following two decades of internet companies cheap to build. — Michael Wee, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026 The Commodore had been named after Cornelius (the Commodore) Vanderbilt, the railway tycoon who had built Grand Central, in 1871. — Kai Bird, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026 The late 1880s brought the motorcar, which used railway-style oil lamps. — Matthew MacConnell, ArsTechnica, 3 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for railway

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Heavy deposits could collapse roofs, contaminate water, damage machinery, bury crops, disrupt power networks, and make roads difficult to use.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026
Torrential downpours routinely inundate roads and railway lines, disrupt air and rail traffic.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026