Railway

(noun.) line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight.

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• The large and powerful engines on the Great Western Railway have, however, only two driving wheels, which are 8 feet in diameter. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• We drove slowly in this matting-covered tunnel and came out onto a bare cleared space where the railway station had been. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• To earn his bread he sought and found employment on a railway locomotive. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Magical and terrible things like the telegraph and the railway arrived. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In the Hetton Railway, which ran for a part of its distance through rough country, he used stationary engines wherever he could not secure grades that would make locomotives practicable. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Mr. Huskisson, one of the members of Parliament for Liverpool, and a warm friend and supporter of Stephenson and the railroad, had stepped from his coach, and was standing on the railway. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Mr. Edison himself supplies the following data: During the electric-railway experiments at Menlo Park, we had a short spur of track up one of the steep gullies. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• At the end of that time the sound of a carriage caught my ear, and I was met, as I advanced towards the second turning, by a fly from the railway. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Adverting to other advantages derived from railway locomotion, Mr. Stephenson noticed the comparative safety of that mode of travelling. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The next afternoon, about twenty miles from Milton-Northern, they entered on the little branch railway that led to Heston. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• From the late summer of 1878 and to the fall of 1887 Edison was intensely busy on the electric light, electric railway, and other problems, and virtually gave no attention to the phonograph. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Ursula saw a man with a lantern come out of a farm by the railway, and cross to the dark farm-buildings. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• A railway here in Asia--in the dreamy realm of the Orient--in the fabled land of the Arabian Nights--is a strange thing to think of. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• We went up to the bank and finally we saw the railway bridge. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Over one-half million miles of these railway tracks are on the earth's surface to-day! 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In 1854 there were 111 millions of passengers conveyed on railways, each passenger travelling an average of 12 miles. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The railways reduced this journey for any ordinary traveller to less than forty-eight hours. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Railways were growing at the rate of nearly one thousand miles annually. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Like considerations would apply to railways, antiseptic surgery, or friction matches. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• In a national and in a social point of view, also, railways have produced important improvements. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The wear and tear of the railways was, at the same time, enormous. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The Pacific Railway, the first of our half a dozen transcontinental railways, was completed in 1869. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• It is curious to note the many kinds of opposition these first railways encountered. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• By the middle of the century a network of railways had spread all over Europe. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I said we had eighty thousand convicts employed on the railways in America--all of them under sentence of death for murder in the first degree. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• No invention of the present century has produced so great a social change as Steam Locomotion on railways. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Prominent among modern improvements in steam railways is the air brake. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The traffic returns for the week ending the 25th of September, 1858, amounted to ￡502,720; and the gross receipts of the railways in 1857 were ￡24,174,610. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• It deserves note that at Chicago regular railway tickets were issued to paying passengers, the first ever employed on American electric railways. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Instead of the diminished demand for horses which was apprehended when railways displaced stage coaches, public conveyances have increased a hundredfold. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.

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