4 sentences with 'rail'

Example sentences and phrases with the word rail and other words derived from it.

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« As the rail network began to take shape, it stimulated increased demand for coal, iron and steel. »
« Conservative peasants were sent by rail from the countryside under the orders of the Assembly and within days, the great socialist experiment was crushed. »
« At 10:21pm on Christmas Eve 1953, a lahar from a nearby volcano knocked out the rail bridge over the Whangaehu River at Tangiwai, just before the Wellington–Auckland night express train was due to cross it. »
« The train plunged into the flooded river at high speed, killing 151 of the 285 passengers on board. At the time it was the eighth biggest rail disaster the world had seen. The whole nation, with a population of just over 2 million were stunned. For his actions in attempting to stop the train by running along the line waving a torch, Arthur Cyril Ellis was awarded the George Medal, New Zealand's highest civilian award. »

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