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See more synonyms for railway on Thesaurus.com a rail line with lighter-weight equipment and roadbed than a main-line railroad . a railroad , especially one operating over relatively short distances. Also called trackway . any line or lines of rails forming a road of flanged-wheel equipment. Chiefly British railroad .Show More
Origin of railway First recorded in
1770–80; rail1 +
way1 Related forms rail·wayed , adjective rail·way·less , adjective in·ter·rail·way , adjective pre·rail·way , adjective un·rail·wayed , adjective Dictionary.com Unabridged
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Examples from the Web for railway Contemporary Examples of railway All in all, approximately 13,000 Allied POWs and 90,000 Asian laborers perished while working on the railway .
Manttan is keen to carry out research on that Burmese side of the railway as his father worked on that section.
A dam now in place on the Thai side of the line prevents the railway from being reconstructed in its entirety, he explains.
They recorded 10,549 graves on or near the railway in 144 cemeteries, failing to locate only 52 graves.
Two years later, Death Metal Angola is readying for its premiere, and the railway film remains unfinished.
Historical Examples of railway I would like to return to Paris, but the railway is mobilized.
He can have a season ticket on the railway , and come down every night.
It represents a sort of nut, itself too bulky for a railway truck.
As yet the good townsfolk are hardly alive to the benefits of a railway .
We decided to visit Orange instead, a short distance by railway .
British Dictionary definitions for railway a permanent track composed of a line of parallel metal rails fixed to sleepers, for transport of passengers and goods in trains any track on which the wheels of a vehicle may run a cable railway the entire equipment, rolling stock, buildings, property, and system of tracks used in such a transport system the organization responsible for operating a railway network (modifier) of, relating to, or used on a railway or railways a railway engine ; a railway strike Show More
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Word Origin and History for railway n. 1812 in modern sense, from rail (n.1) + way . Earlier used of any sort of road on which rails (originally wooden) were laid for easier transport (1776).
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