(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.
Roadway
Definition:
(n.) A road; especially, the part traveled by carriages.
Example Sentences:
(1) Roadway design improvements such as removal of fixed objects from roadsides, widening roadside recovery zones, installing dividers between opposing lanes of traffic, and replacing fixed utility poles with breakaway designs, have been effective in reducing crashes and injuries.
(2) Last year, Russia built a major roadway in the far-eastern city of Vladivostok, in time for it to host an annual summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum.
(3) This paper investigates the injury mechanisms of occupants of pickup trucks and the surfaces that the occupants contact in roadway accidents.
(4) The outcome confirms and expands upon conclusions derived from less formal studies about how drivers perceive other roadway users.
(5) But this primitive security measure was not enough to deter the IRA from launching a mortar attack on John Major’s cabinet from a Ford Transit van from the roadway on the other side of Downing Street.
(6) During the summer of 1987, we investigated a series of firearm assaults occurring on Los Angeles County (California) roadways.
(7) The case is presented of a 26-year-old male who was injured whilst resting in the rear of a moving vehicle that left the roadway and rolled in remote central Australia.
(8) Schools, financial markets and government offices were closed on Tuesday as flooding on major roadways made travel impossible.
(9) Sheriff's dispatch said early Saturday that the roadway had been reopened, but the office did not have any information on the stranded cars.
(10) Safety belt effectiveness for drivers is higher in single-car crashes than in multiple-vehicle crashes, but does not depend much on a variety of other vehicle factors (for example, car size), accident factors (travel speed), roadway factors (posted speed limit), and environmental factors (light versus dark).
(11) For children who were over five years of age, accidents on the roadway as pedestrians (58% of deaths) and pedal-cyclists (20% of deaths) were the most-common causes of death.
(12) ‘A monstrous and useless folly’ The Lower Manhattan Expressway was an effort to tie up the loose ends of local roadways by extending Interstate 78 – all 10 lanes of it – from the Holland Tunnel to the Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges.
(13) In Japan, where many people in large cities have been living near major roadways, the increase of automobile exhaust due to heavy traffic congestion will predictably cause a greater impact on people living near major roadways.
(14) Though Davis said on Tuesday her relationship with God precluded her duty as clerk to issue marriage licenses, she told the Moorehead News after winning the race last November: “[I] will be the very best working clerk that I can be and will be a good steward of their tax dollars and follow the statutes of this office to the letter.” A town of about 6,800, Morehead is situated along a roadway, about 65 miles from the city of Lexington.
(15) An association between increase in pollutant levels and the distance from the roadway was observed.
(16) Throughout the morning, cleanup crews struggled to remove fallen trees and branches from major roadways.
(17) The water was rising and running across the roadway rapidly and the troopers were concerned for these individuals’ safety.
(18) The prevalence rate of respiratory symptoms was higher in those areas nearest roadways with heavy traffic both in children and adults.
(19) In Missouri, the state Department of Transportation warned that most major roadways were snow-covered, it was too cold for rock salt to be very effective and the wind was whipping, causing whiteout conditions.
(20) Robert Moses News of the proposed roadway provoked alarm.