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233 examples of Railway in a sentence

I under-stand the desire to expand the story to it's fullest but many minutes could have been cut during the manhunt at the railway station and the end scenes done in retrospect weren't necessary.
It begins with Charlotte sitting in a railway carriage rolling up a cigarette with a type of paper that wasn't on the market until after the war (i.e. with tapered corners).
After the railway journey she is seen alighting in a supposedly war-torn, yet oddly blimp-free and undamaged London from a post-war (indeed relatively modern) London bus.
Not content with a compelling story, the director has thrown in a series of his typically bravura set pieces, the best of which is a truly outstanding railway station shootout.
One by one the innocent youngsters aboard the train die a horrible death, from being decapitated, speared by splintered signal poles, or torn in halves by iron chains connecting the railway cars.
My father was a prisoner on the death railway so the film had a special meaning for me.
Much of the film is devoted to the collection of the four keys needed to open the two safes: two kept in a very secure railway office, one by "square-rigged" bank President Trent (Webb) and one by oversexed bank manager Fowler (Terris).
In the summer of 2002, the North Korean leader visited Russia to learn about "non-intrusive"--that is, not entirely Western--capitalism, while riding in an armored train on the Trans-Siberian railway.
To be an engine of change in Europe, France must undergo a deep structural transformation, which, as student protests at Sciences Po and railway strikes across France show, will be very difficult.
Across China, concrete was poured into apartment blocks, multilane highways, convention centers, railway stations, and airports.
Infrastructure’s Class of Its OwnBEIJING – After several months of disappointing economic indicators, China’s State Council has unveiled a “mini-stimulus” package, focused on social-housing construction and railway expansion.
Indeed, more private-sector involvement would make the kind of scandals that have occurred in China’s railway sector far less likely.
Coal, canals, and metalworkers were the foundation for building, installing, and using the automatic spinning machines, power looms, and railway locomotives that were the first modern machine industries.
Consider Liu Zhijun, the former railway minister, who propelled China’s frenzy of high-speed rail construction.
In 1847, the first major structural failure on Britain's expanding railway network occurred at Chester, England.
More than a century ago, the Korean activist Ahn Jung-geun assassinated Japan’s first prime minister, Hirobumi Ito, at the railway station in the Chinese city of Harbin, cementing Ahn’s status as a hero in Korea and a terrorist in Japan.
The Roots of German OpennessPARIS – “Germany, Germany,” shout thousands of refugees, faced with the obvious bad will of Hungary’s political authorities, in front of Budapest’s Keleti railway station.
In the Middle East, Chinese firms are building a subway in Iran’s capital and a high-speed railway in Saudi Arabia.
The railway minister (a portfolio that exists in few democracies nowadays) presents the “railway budget" to the lower house for its approval.
The practice began in the days of the British Raj, when the railway budget rivaled that of the rest of the Indian government.
Of course, railway revenues today, at $23 billion, no longer dwarf the country's budget, which now stands at some $268 billion.
The problem is that a succession of railway ministers, viewing the trains as poor people's only affordable means of transport, have refused to raise passenger fares, squeezing freight instead.
Though freight transport still accounts for 67% of railway revenues, with 2.65 million tons carried every day, the higher fares needed to subsidize passengers have deterred shippers.
Yet the railway ministers continue to insist on their populist approach.
A technocratic new railway minister, Suresh Prabhu, has once again left passenger fares untouched and raised freight rates.
Prabhu's pledges include improving and expanding rail lines, introducing wireless Internet at railway stations, eliminating unmanned level crossings, creating a 24-hour toll-free number for users to phone in complaints, and installing security cameras to protect women passengers.
It is far from clear how Prabhu's grand vision of a safer, cleaner, and speedier Indian railway system will be achieved in practice.
The railway minister has created a dream budget –though “pipe dream" might be a more accurate description.
Creating regional development banks and building a Mediterranean express railway from Alexandria to Rabat would serve this goal.
Nigerian commercial banks have already issued international bonds; in Zambia, the power utility, railway operator, and road builder are planning to issue as much as $4.5 billion in international bonds.
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