Railway
21railway — See railroad, railway …
22railway — rail|way W2S2 [ˈreılweı] n BrE a system of tracks along which trains run, or a system of trains American Equivalent: railroad ▪ a railway company …
23railway — / reIlweI/ noun (C) BrE 1 (C) a method of traveling or moving things around by train; railroad 1 (1) AmE 2 the railway/the railways all the work, equipment etc connected with a train system; the railroad 1 (2) AmE: working on the railways …
24railway — /ˈreɪlweɪ / (say raylway) noun 1. a permanent road or way, laid or provided with rails of steel, iron, etc., commonly in one or more pairs of continuous lines forming a track or tracks, on which vehicles run for the transporting of passengers,… …
25Railway time — was the name given to the standardised time arrangement first applied by the Great Western Railway in England in November 1840. This was the first recorded occasion when a number of different local times were synchronised and a single standard… …
26Railway electrification in Great Britain — describes the past and present electrification systems used to supply traction current to railways and tramways in Great Britain with a chronological record of development, a list of lines using each system, and a history and a technical… …
27Railway Mania — is the term given to the speculative frenzy in Britain in the 1840s. It followed a common pattern: as the price of railway shares increased, more and more money was poured in by speculators, until the inevitable collapse. It reached its zenith in …
28Railway preservation in New Zealand — is the preservation of historically significant facets of New Zealand s rail transport history.HistoryEarly initiativesEarly preservation efforts in New Zealand were restricted to static public display of locomotives, probably the first being a… …
29Railway nationalization — refers to the act of nationalizing rail transport assets, taking them into public ownership. Several countries have nationalized part or all of their railway system at different times.More recently, the international trend has been towards… …
30Railway Reserve Heritage Trail, Western Australia — Railway Reserve Heritage Trail, also on some road maps as Rail reserves heritage trail or Rail reserves historical trail and frequently referred to locally as the Bridle Trail or Bridle Track, is within the Shire of Mundaring in Western Australia …
