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‘The only thing that makes his work more complicated is the bad traffic and cars driving along the railways.’
‘Level crossings still pose the greatest risk to life on the railways, a rail safety chief said yesterday.’
‘They can be used as acoustic baffles along roads and railways.’
‘Commuters could benefit from plans to provide car parking at a branch line railway station.’
‘This week has been chaos on the railways as so many lines need to be checked and speed restrictions have been introduced.’
‘No remnants of these prairies survive, except for linear strips along railways.’
‘The damage to bridges, roads, railways and telephone lines took months to repair.’
‘A month back the route from Newport to Sandown was opened along a disused railway and as such it has no hills.’
‘In addition to using the civil main lines, railways were constructed for purely military purposes, with no commercial value.’
‘Fields around Horwich are flooded in places, and all along the railway line to Bolton acres of land are seen under water.’
‘This simple and not too expensive system was installed over hundreds of miles of British main line railways and the lives saved must be considerable.’
‘Despite the massive destruction to the railway system the main lines were cleared two days after the blast.’
‘It is to be located along the railway in the city of Kaesong, just inside the North Korean border.’
‘Highworth Town Council is backing calls for a cycle route along the disused railway line.’
‘Plans have been submitted to lay a leisure trail along a former railway as part of a £1 million project.’
‘The route north all the way to Whitby carries no traffic at all as it is the Rail Trail which runs along the track bed of a former railway line.’
‘He parked the car at the railway station and walked along the deserted line.’
‘Trains running along the busy railway line were halted during the afternoon and evening.’
‘The Government thought it was going to deliver the coal by rail, but the railways are so run down that it cannot get it through.’
‘As for claims that nuts never come loose on the railway, rail workers rubbished that last week.’
1.1A set of tracks for other vehicles.
2A network of tracks with the trains, organization, and personnel required for its working.
‘the carriage of freight on the railways’
‘Already the railway people are predicting 30-minute delays for tomorrow morning.’
‘It suffered again when public confidence in the railways dipped after ten people were killed in 2001.’
‘It was easy to understand why firms preferred road transport: the railway was badly run.’
‘The cause of the tragedy is being investigated by Italy's railway network RFI.’
‘Often a broken rail is found and the railway stops trains until it is mended.’
‘Polls show that most people want the railways re-nationalised.’
‘Economic regulation of the railway, as presently organised, has largely failed.’
‘All this and breakfast is done before the railway people arrive for an early ordering time.’
‘The Unions have a vested interest in organisations such as the railways and the National Health Service.’
‘If the revenues have been going down, the cost of operating the world's largest network of railways has been steadily inching upwards.’
‘However, steel had structural advantages and durability which iron lacked, and the railways adopted steel for their tracks.’
‘It will link up with the Angolan railway network in the area of Cassinga and Chamutete.’
‘It showed the network of railways that used to operate in this country many years ago and it made me very sad.’
‘It was enough to break airline reservation systems and German banking networks and halt Australian railways.’
‘He is a railway enthusiast who is heavily involved in planning for the future.’
‘The railways also facilitated the transport of inferior wines.’
‘It occurred after the railway worker confronted two people daubing graffiti on a train.’
‘Representatives from the railway network attended a special award ceremony at the Romford Dog Stadium.’
‘The new Eastern Region will operate and maintain the railway network across one-third of the country.’
‘I guess we all knew that the railway network was out of control financially, and riddled with inefficiencies.’