What's the difference between railway and wagon?

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.

Wagon


Definition:

  • (n.) A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise.
  • (n.) A freight car on a railway.
  • (n.) A chariot
  • (n.) The Dipper, or Charles's Wain.
  • (v. t.) To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city.
  • (v. i.) To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between Philadelphia and its suburbs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You wrote I Will Always Love You for Porter Wagoner, even though he had sued you.
  • (2) The danger is, in the face of western criticism and in the strong belief they have done more than most of their neighbours to be progressive, that they will now circle the wagons.
  • (3) Samples of fresh grass, wilted grass prior to and after ensiling in a stack silo and cut with either a cylinder-type forage harvester (11.3 mm of length cut) or a self-loading wagon (42.4 mm of length cut), wilted grass prior to and after ensiling in large round bales, and grass hay were obtained from the same field and used for determination of DM and CP degradability.
  • (4) Tractors accounted for one half of these machinery-related deaths, followed by farm wagons, combines, and forklifts.
  • (5) Individuals have decided to abandon their own families and jump on the Mandela wagon.
  • (6) Rail privatisation also saw the end of much domestic locomotive, wagon and carriage building – more workers on the scrapheap, more imports to further transform the balance of payments into a horror story.
  • (7) Although Knoller and the other young people in the wagon took it in turns to sit and stand, their efforts proved insufficient.
  • (8) "The meaning of the elections is: Italy can play a role; Italy is not the last wheel of the wagon; Italy is not the bottom of the class.
  • (9) The train now trundles through silent stations, its wagons free of the crowds of men, women and children who once clung to roofs and ladders.
  • (10) "The trains had 10 wagons and 100 people squeezed into each one," he says.
  • (11) If the wagons do start rolling in, I think there will be a massive upsurge,” he says.
  • (12) Nato thought better of hitching its wagon to the star of the hot-headed Georgian president.
  • (13) Gulnara Suleymanova and her family of five live in a wagon behind Baku’s prestigious new sports stadium, built especially for next month’s European Games.
  • (14) The wounded were being loaded into wagons; Wilfred managed to scramble up.
  • (15) If you then get the right of the party behaving in that way, that’s when you get real trouble and that’s the risk we’ve got at the moment: that there are some in the party all circling the wagon against Jeremy’s campaign.
  • (16) Secret Trump voters reverse their support: 'He seems to be insane' Read more As the Washington pundits and pollsters wrote them off, there was a sense of circling the wagons.
  • (17) She had become Snowflake’s unofficial welcome wagon, local therapist and advocate.
  • (18) "When resources are tight and all our inclinations are to pull the corporate wagons into a circle and fight to defend our own vested interests, that is exactly the time when we need to be at our boldest and most imaginative," he said.
  • (19) He was bundled into a wooden box which Roland had built specially for the job and then carried in a hand wagon to his Audi 8 car.
  • (20) 5.48pm BST Summary of today's events: - 196 bodies being stored in refrigerated railway wagons in Torez.