What's the difference between railroad and railway?

Railroad


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Railway

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A review of all railroad-related deaths and significant injuries that occurred in a medium-sized metropolitan area from January 1, 1979, to June 30, 1986, was conducted.
  • (2) And in the 1840s, American railroads began designating a “ladies’ car” for the exclusive use of women and their male escorts.
  • (3) Officers took up positions on rooftops and along railroad tracks and scanned the terrain through rifle scopes and binoculars.
  • (4) Trainmen and railroad clerks were used as reference cohorts.The engineers had relatively high invalidity and mortality rates in comparison to the reference groups, especially with respect to cardiovascular diseases and malignant tumors.
  • (5) One of their number, James Howard Kunstler, blasted the High Line as "decadent" , "a weed-filled 1.5 mile-long stretch of abandoned elevated railroad", where "mistakes are artfully multiplied and layered", such as "the notion that buildings don't have to relate to the street-and-block grid ... instead of repairing the discontinuities of recent decades, we just celebrate them and make them worse".
  • (6) However, the most spectacular fundraiser was not the auction room but a wedding, when the ninth duke married the American railroad heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt, securing a gigantic dowry, a fortune in shares and an annual allowance.
  • (7) He said police reports in Sweden showed SW had told a friend, Marie Thorn, that she felt police and others around her "railroaded her" into pressing charges.
  • (8) Manuel said Obama had done this by designating large landscapes as well as places significant to landmark social movements, including labor activist Cesar Chavez’s home ; the Stonewall Inn , where a 1969 police raid kicked off a new front in the LGBT equality movement; and a park dedicated to the work of Harriet Tubman , a former slave who helped other slaves escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
  • (9) A total of 25 male railroad and underground railroad car painters were studied.
  • (10) horns of cars, sirens of emergency vehicles and alarm signals of railroad crossings, and then displays them as vibration to the driver.
  • (11) With the epizootic situation remaining tense and the danger of TBE virus infection still present, TBE morbidity and mortality rates decreased in the years of the construction of the Baikal-Amur Railroad, which was due to greater attention given to measures for the prophylaxis of TBE during this period.
  • (12) Exposure, smoking, and respiratory histories, chest radiographs, flow-volume loops, and single breath DLCOs were obtained on 383 railroad workers.
  • (13) On the basis of 1518 values of concentration of glycosylated Hb in blood of workers responsible for safety in railroad transportation authors tried to calculate the range of normal values of this parameter.
  • (14) Metro North and the Long Island Railroad remain closed today.
  • (15) The majority are railroaded into the so-called sport from massively disadvantaged backgrounds.
  • (16) An adaptation of the Palmes personal passive sampler was used to measure the NO2 exposures of 477 U.S. railroad workers at four railroads.
  • (17) The study indicates a causal relation between urinary stone formation in the investigated railroad shopmen and their exposure to oxalic acid at work.
  • (18) The 44-year-old railroad worker grew up on the other side of the canal where Paris Avenue meets Treasure Street, a few blocks from Elysian Fields Avenue.
  • (19) Data from white adult men working for U.S. railroad companies in 1957 to 1960, who were free of pre-existing cardiovascular disease (N = 2,356), were used to study these relationships cross-sectionally.
  • (20) Our findings are similar; they showed slight positive signs of slowed nerve conduction velocities among the car painters and no increase in EEG abnormalities in comparison to the reference group of railroad engineers.

Railway


Definition:

  • (n.) A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure.
  • (n.) The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property; as, a certain railroad has been put into the hands of a receiver.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Trans-Siberian railway , the greatest train journey in the world, is where our love story began.
  • (2) "Speed is not the main reason for building the new railway.
  • (3) It is the biggest privatisation since John Major sold the railways in the 1990s.
  • (4) Sometimes it can seem as if the history of the City is the history of its crises and disasters, from the banking crisis of 1825 (which saw undercapitalised banks collapse – perhaps the closest historic parallel to the contemporary credit crunch), through the Spanish panic of 1835, the railway bust of 1837, the crash of Overend Gurney, the Kaffir boom, the Westralian boom, the Marconi scandal, and so on and on – a theme with endless variations.
  • (5) The Conservatives have held back the development of garden cities on the scale necessary, but if Liberal Democrats are part of the next government, we will ensure at least 10 get under way – with up to five along this new garden cities railway, bringing new homes and jobs to the brainbelt of south-east England.” The Lib Dems insist they are planning to act in the national interest and are not motivated by electoral considerations.
  • (6) Demolition of a steel railway bridge was carried out by nine workers using flame-torch cutting.
  • (7) She consciously destroyed the workforces in places like the railways, for example, and the mines, and the steelworks … so that transition from adolescence to adulthood was destroyed, consciously, and knowingly.
  • (8) The railway between Norwich and Ely was blocked when strong winds caused power lines to fall across the tracks.
  • (9) Where the cycle track is signed to the left, continue on the footpath straight ahead, which runs beside the main railway - this will take you to Didcot station.
  • (10) A Department for Transport spokesman said the money was available now, adding that it was to deliver 10 projects along the western route, including works at Cowley Bridge in Exeter, which would improve the railway's ability to withstand extreme weather.
  • (11) Khan said the garden bridge could rival New York’s high line, a public park built on a 1.45-mile elevated former railway.
  • (12) Trains in the northern Netherlands were halted, Dutch Railways said.
  • (13) While we do have the safest railway in Europe, we have the oldest railway in Europe … It [HS2] is essential for growth."
  • (14) Britain's railway was being run at a cost 40% higher than in four comparable countries (France, Sweden, Switzerland and the Netherlands).
  • (15) Martin Frobisher, the area director for Network Rail, said: "The Northern Hub and electrification programme is the biggest investment in the railway in the north of England for a generation and will transform rail travel for millions of passengers every year."
  • (16) The editor of the Sheffield Star has demanded an explanation as to why his reporter, Alex Evans, was warned off filming a protest against cuts to free travel provision for pensioners and disabled people by railway staff officers on Monday.
  • (17) An obvious comparison, made by Gensler, is with the High Line in New York, the phenomenally successful park made out of an old railway viaduct, which like the River Park is long and thin.
  • (18) The road is the main route into Leeds from the south and links the city centre and railways stations to the M1, M621 and M62 motorways.
  • (19) The role of South African Railways and Harbours in spreading disease and health care is examined.
  • (20) I came to an overpass and looked at the railway lines beneath me.