How to Use railway in a Sentence

railway

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  • 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 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 — the highest in the U.S. — recently had a $100 million glow up.
    — Lori Rackl, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2023
  • What is being done about a tender for a railway link to Ghana?
    — Reuters, CNN, 4 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • So he’s being hit by as soft a thing as you can be hit by that’s gonna be hanging by a railway line in 1944.
    — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 July 2023
  • New railways will cross the region and connect it with Europe and Asia.
    — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Alaska had a railway line from Seward to Nenana, to which the serum was shipped and picked up by the first dog musher.
    — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2023
  • Each features dauphine hands and a railway minutes track on the outer edges.
    — Roberta Naas, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • To the end of the line: Vancouver, the last stop on the country’s transcontinental railway.
    — John Temple, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2022
  • But the head of Ukraine’s railway system rejected the claim that tanks were inside.
    — John Leicester, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2022
  • At over 7,390 feet, the Rhaetian Railway is famous for being the highest railway to traverse the Alps.
    — Outside Online, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Dzhankoy is a key hub for Russians using roads and railways about 50 miles south of the Ukrainian mainland.
    — Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The majority come from out of state, trickling in by sky, sea and railway.
    — Seward Hospitality, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Milano Centrale is the city’s largest railway station, with trains heading to and from the rest of Italy, as well as France and Switzerland.
    — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 25 Mar. 2024
  • There were reports of damage to tracks and overhead lines across U.K. networks, the railway said.
    — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 20 July 2022
  • But that seemed a long shot for a scrawny youngster who grew up shining shoes in the Bauru railway station.
    — Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Some 80 million people are set to take to the roads, railways, skies and even cruise ships this week, each making trips of more than 50 miles from home between Tuesday and next Monday.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2024

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