Examples of railway in a Sentence
a system of railways that crisscrosses the whole nation
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At dusk, a colony of bats can be spotted emerging from an old railway tunnel now called Old Tunnel State Park.
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Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 10 Jan. 2026
State television broadcast overnight images of burning buses, cars and motorbikes as well as fires at underground railway stations and banks.
—Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 9 Jan. 2026
Under Ignacio Madridejos, its CEO since 2019, the onetime supplier to Spanish railways has become one of the leading infrastructure companies in North America, with a pipeline of projects from power substations to the soon-to-open Terminal 1 at New York’s JFK International Airport.
—Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 9 Jan. 2026
In Indonesia, floodwaters cut off road access to the Port of Belawan in Sumatra, while in southern Thailand, road and railway damage thwarted 96 percent of the cross-border trade with Malaysia.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 8 Jan. 2026
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“Railway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/railway. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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railway
noun
rail·way
ˈrā(ə)l-ˌwā 
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