Railway

Word RAILWAY
Character 7
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈɹeɪlˌweɪ/

Definitions and meanings of "Railway"

What do we mean by railway?

A railroad, especially one operated over a limited area. noun

A track providing a runway for wheeled equipment. noun

Pl. Naut., iron jackstays bolted on the under side of standing gaffs which carry fore-and-aft sails, with or without booms. Small grooved iron shapes called “travelers” are sewed to the head of the sail, and slide along the railway, so that the canvas may be spread along the gaff by means of a whip or outhaul. noun

A railway built under enactments to secure light charges for transportation. noun

A short track upon which cars are run, generally by gravity, and which passes through artificial scenery intended to be beautiful or weird: a source of amusement at pleasure-resorts. noun

In mech. engin., broadly, a way composed of one or more rails, or lines of rails, for the support, and commonly also for the direction of the motion, of a body carried on wheels adapted to roll on the rail or rails, or lines of rails. noun

A way for the transportation of freight or passengers, or both, in which vehicles with flanged or grooved wheels are drawn or propelled on one or more lines of rails that support the wheels of the vehicles, and guide their course by the lateral pressure of the rails against the wheels; a railroad. (See railroad.) noun

A railway in which cars are drawn by pneumatic locomotives. Scarcely more success has been reached in this method than in that described above. noun

A track, consisting of parallel rails, over which wheeled vehicles may travel. noun

A transport system using these rails used to move passengers or goods. noun

Line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight noun

A line of track providing a runway for wheels noun

A transport system using rails used to move passengers or goods.

A track, consisting of parallel rails, over which wheeled vehicles such as trains may travel.

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The word "railway" in example sentences

The very fact, that the railway is a state-owned institution, and that every individual in Canada is a shareholder, makes that problem rather more difficult than if we were a privately-owned company. ❋ Unknown (1929)

In a new country a railway is a colonizing factor. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Besides, the transsiberian railway is already built? ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was a two day journey, mostly waiting in railway stations. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The main railway line ran from there to Split in Yugoslavia so we thought that we would try and jump onto a goods train. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For vegetables, get used to whatever it was they served in railway hotels back in the 1890s: jams, preserves, pickled everything. ❋ Unknown (2010)

New York City will soon be receiving a brand new stretch of green space as the once-abandoned High Line railway is renovated to become a ❋ Unknown (2009)

Oh, there are so many types of mountain railway, be it like the Cable Cars of San Francisco, or the balanced tramway of the Great Orme. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What started as an outcry over the rising cost of revamping the city of Stuttgart's main railway station has become a lightning rod for broader disaffection with Ms. Merkel's government. ❋ Andrea Thomas (2010)

We see Cranford, unchanging and unchanged, and yet the railway is coming threatening their world. ❋ Maxine (2009)

That is a chilling reference to the murder of the six million Jews of Europe during the Third Reich, most of whom were transported to extermination centres in railway cattle cars. ❋ Unknown (2009)

China has also invested heavily in railway electrification. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They could also have re-instated Rowland Emett's wonderful Festival of Britain railway too at Battersea. ❋ Peter Ashley (2008)

The camera could be deployed in railway stations, shopping centres and other public spaces. ❋ Not A Sheep (2008)

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