1. railway

noun. ['ˈreɪlˌweɪ'] a line of track providing a runway for wheels.

Rhymes with Railway

• gallway
• hallway
• selway
• spillway

Sentences with railway

1. Noun, singular or mass
Arrive at Santa Lucia railway station in Venice at least 15 minutes before your train is due to leave.

Quotes about railway

1. [Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together.
- Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

2. For me, it does not 'miss' if (the Potteries Thinkbelt study) goes into the archive, not as an example of how railway carriages can be used for teaching, but as one of the most powerful question marks ever placed against the architecture of university education.
- Roy Landau, The Square Book

2. railway

noun. ['ˈreɪlˌweɪ'] line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight.