How to Use railway in a Sentence

railway

noun
  • The cab stopped for a minute or so, waiting at a railway crossing.
    — Longreads, 1 June 2021
  • Following the crash near railway tracks, the bus caught on fire.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The strap snapped, and the truck tumbled down the hill onto the railway tracks.
    — New York Times, 19 July 2021
  • The monarch, 96, helped open a new railway named in her honor.
    — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 17 May 2022
  • Years after the roundabout was built, there’s still no railway.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2026
  • What is being done about a tender for a railway link to Ghana?
    — Reuters, CNN, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The railway company had no idea why the train was not moving.
    — cleveland, 25 Sep. 2022
  • His tent sits next to a growing puddle of water that trails down from the railway.
    — Jordan Anderson, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Each features dauphine hands and a railway minutes track on the outer edges.
    — Roberta Naas, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • But nowadays, the old railway has been reclaimed and turned into a trail.
    — Hazlitt, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Your presence on trains and near railway lines endangers your life.
    — Lucia I Suarez Sang, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • In recent years Britain’s railways have had one of the world’s best safety records.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026
  • Bridge designs with a railway line mostly have it in the center, with the roads split on both sides.
    — Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Vienna is the first stop on the railway journey.
    — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The train remained on the tracks, and the railway was closed while emergency teams worked in the area.
    — ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • 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 railway said the train was waiting for a new crew, which would take more than 90 minutes.
    — cleveland, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The majority come from out of state, trickling in by sky, sea and railway.
    — Seward Hospitality, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Dauphine-style hands sweep across the railway minute track, while a hand tipped with a crescent moon indicates the date.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Entering the town along the railway line, the heavy vehicles gouged deep paths through the fields.
    — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Smoke could be seen rising from the side of a railway station, Andriushchenko said.
    — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 27 May 2023
  • Europe is building the largest railway under the Alps.
    — Amira El-Fekki‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Calling those who root for railways and live for locomotion!
    — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Guardado said the city did put in a row of rocks along part of their alley next to the railway, to try to catch some of the water.
    — Paige Fry, chicagotribune.com, 24 Dec. 2021
  • The number is too close to the railway station, so everyone keeps calling for train times.
    — Alice Burton, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The number is too close to the railway station, so everyone keeps calling for train times.
    — Alice Burton, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The project will also update nearby railways.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • New railways will cross the region and connect it with Europe and Asia.
    — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
  • All five outliers were found within a few hundred meters of railway tracks or stations.
    — Richard Kemeny, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2026
  • 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

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