9 sentences with 'railway'
Example sentences and phrases with the word railway and other words derived from it.
• « Among construction workers, miners, railway workers and dock workers, studies have recorded a consumption of wine and beer that exceeds three times the normal level; the ingestion of up to a litre and a half of wine at a time was, in these sectors, considered acceptable and even necessary to alleviate the harshness of the work. »
• « Construction workers, miners and railway workers endure harsh working conditions and, at least until recently, were obliged to work frequent overtime. »
• « The first experimental railway was put into use in 1820, and the first passenger railway followed in 1830, travelling between the industrial cities of Manchester and Liverpool in the north of England. »
• « Nearly 6,500 miles of railway were built in Britain between 1830 and 1850, just 20 years, and railway expansion soon followed on the continent. »
• « The telegraph was also invented in 1830 and was initially used to warn railway stations when there were several trains on the track. »
• « However, although Russian soldiers were also the Germans' match, Russia was hampered by its inadequate industrial base and lack of railway lines and automobiles. »
• « The piano performance took place on the platform of the old railway station, and before the start of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, she had to pause while a 90-car freight train passed. »
• « Near the railway station we had to go up an escalator. At the bottom of the escalator we met the young people again. »
• « Three huge escalators and a funicular railway can carry 35,000 people an hour to the main Olympic facilities at the top of Montjuic, the smaller of the two mountains that dominate the city of Barcelona. »