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railway

[ reyl-wey ]

noun

  1. a rail line with lighter-weight equipment and roadbed than a main-line railroad.
  2. a railroad, especially one operating over relatively short distances.
  3. Also called trackway. any line or lines of rails rail forming a road of flanged-wheel equipment.
  4. Chiefly British. railroad.


railway

/ ˈɪˌɱɪ /

noun

  1. a permanent track composed of a line of parallel metal rails fixed to sleepers, for transport of passengers and goods in trains
  2. any track on which the wheels of a vehicle may run

    a cable railway

  3. the entire equipment, rolling stock, buildings, property, and system of tracks used in such a transport system
  4. the organization responsible for operating a railway network
  5. modifier of, relating to, or used on a railway or railways

    a railway strike

    a railway engine

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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  • w adjective
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  • t·w adjective
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  • un·w adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of railway1

First recorded in 1770–80; rail 1 + way 1
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A man who was shot dead by police at a railway station might have called officers claiming there was a gunman, a watchdog has said.

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His mother was a chef and his father worked for the national railway, but music was omnipresent in the house.

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Venables and Thompson led the toddler two-and-a-half miles away to a railway track, where they tortured him and beat him to death.

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Current railway byelaws already ban many forms of anti-social behaviour on trains and at stations, including using equipment to produce sound without permission if this annoys others.

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One of the links was relevant, but the other tried to give me additional weather details for Charing Cross - not the location in Glasgow, but the railway station in London.

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