Railway

Examples

• The large and powerful engines on the Great Western Railway have, however, only two driving wheels, which are 8 feet in diameter. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• We drove slowly in this matting-covered tunnel and came out onto a bare cleared space where the railway station had been. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• To earn his bread he sought and found employment on a railway locomotive. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Magical and terrible things like the telegraph and the railway arrived. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• 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. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• 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. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• 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. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• 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. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Adverting to other advantages derived from railway locomotion, Mr. Stephenson noticed the comparative safety of that mode of travelling. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The next afternoon, about twenty miles from Milton-Northern, they entered on the little branch railway that led to Heston. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• 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. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Ursula saw a man with a lantern come out of a farm by the railway, and cross to the dark farm-buildings. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• 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. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We went up to the bank and finally we saw the railway bridge. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Over one-half million miles of these railway tracks are on the earth's surface to-day! William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In 1854 there were 111 millions of passengers conveyed on railways, each passenger travelling an average of 12 miles. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The railways reduced this journey for any ordinary traveller to less than forty-eight hours. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Railways were growing at the rate of nearly one thousand miles annually. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Like considerations would apply to railways, antiseptic surgery, or friction matches. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• In a national and in a social point of view, also, railways have produced important improvements. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The wear and tear of the railways was, at the same time, enormous. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The Pacific Railway, the first of our half a dozen transcontinental railways, was completed in 1869. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It is curious to note the many kinds of opposition these first railways encountered. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• By the middle of the century a network of railways had spread all over Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• 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. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• No invention of the present century has produced so great a social change as Steam Locomotion on railways. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Prominent among modern improvements in steam railways is the air brake. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• 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. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It deserves note that at Chicago regular railway tickets were issued to paying passengers, the first ever employed on American electric railways. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Instead of the diminished demand for horses which was apprehended when railways displaced stage coaches, public conveyances have increased a hundredfold. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.

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