noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a rail/railway tunnel
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the 15km long Gotthard railway tunnel
a railway bridge British English , a railroad bridge American English (= for trains )
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Go under the railway bridge and turn right.
a railway/train/bus timetable
cable railway
elevated railway
light railway
railway line BrE, railroad line American English
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The trail follows a disused railroad line along the edge of the valley.
railway line
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an old disused railway line
railway station
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I’ll meet you outside the main railway station.
train station/railway station British English
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
disused
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The route is waymarked throughout its length and uses footpaths, sections of disused railway line and some minor roads.
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They and their disused railway lines remind us of wealth in the last century - but unemployment during the last 50 years.
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Car blaze: Firemen attended a car fire on a disused railway line near Letch Lane, Stockton.
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Sites investigated included a disused railway tunnel and bogland in Nad.
great
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So were the great Victorian railway stations that we now profess to admire, almost uncritically.
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Their original conception involved a great railway station in one of the most important sites in the capital.
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When it was built in 1899, it was the last of the great railway hotels.
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Peterborough became the great railway and engineering centre that Stamford might well have become.
light
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We will encourage new schemes, using light railways and trams in cities.
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Kitsons' own designs for light railways , such as the Leek &038; Manifold in Staffordshire, were rugged and powerful.
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The only other opportunity in the foreseeable future is likely to be the new light railway in London's Docklands.
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If those words are retained in the legislation, those railways would still require a light railway order at some time.
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The company have retained the leisurely atmosphere of the turn-of-the-century light railway being situated off the major tourist circuits.
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Both produced passenger levels far greater than forecast and have encouraged more planning of urban light railways .
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Local authorities are demonstrating a growing interest in light railways as a cheap, energy-efficient transport solution in urban areas.
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Who knows, someday we might see the Minsterley and Shropshire-Montgomeryshire lines restored as light railways to solve Shrewbury's commuter problems!
main
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The latter were concentrated quite markedly in Stratford and Forest Gate within easy reach of the main railway line into the city.
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We go off to another site, reached by a quarter mile trek along the main railway line.
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Start at the Bahnhofstrasse, leading from the main railway station towards the Paradeplatz and the lake.
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The Great Central is Britain's only preserved main line railway .
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They went two stops to where Alice had seen a long low bridge along a main road over railway lines.
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And of course the main printing-offices were still near the town centre and the main railway station.
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Northallerton play next to the main East Coast railway line.
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In Johannesburg two men died in overnight bomb explosions at the city's main railway station.
old
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The creamy yellow flowers grew in profusion on the slopes of an old railway embankment.
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A genuine station building of great character - but of wooden construction and older than the railway itself!
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Huge pyres of old railway sleepers and fence posts are being built to burn the bodies.
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Then follow the line of telegraph poles to the remains of an old railway bridge.
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The old railway companies had almost Meccano kits for bridges which were built as standard in various places.
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There is also a very pretty walk here, along the old railway line to another picturesque village, Little Melford.
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Later on some old railway carriages situated on the farm were also used.
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The able-bodied had to saw up old railway sleepers and then chop up the pieces for sale as firewood.
preserved
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The project is a good example of co-operation between a preserved railway and a local bus company.
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Remember the preserved railway near you will be operating some form of Christmas promotion this weekend.
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The winner will receive two free wine and dine tickets on the preserved railway of his/her choice.
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Again we have been given right royal treatment by a preserved railway , following our wonderful trip to the Llangollen last year.
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My main concern about the Bill is its possible effect on some of our preserved railways .
■ NOUN
bridge
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Barnes railway bridge was a sinecure compared with the limbo of the Willesden Marshalling Yards.
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Early the next morning they crossed a railway bridge over the Hantan River.
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Did you know that passengers on Lytham gas trams had to push them over the railway bridge in Lytham Road?
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Then follow the line of telegraph poles to the remains of an old railway bridge .
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Bathford slow, pegs around the railway bridge best.
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Across the gardens the river was wide, flat and moonlit, crossed some distance to the east by a railway bridge .
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And there was being thrown from the railway bridge and landing on top of the moving carriage.
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A track leads under a railway bridge and out to the course.
carriage
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It was in the railway carriage as Earle had been coming back from the late night rally in the North West.
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Leadburn Inn Dine in splendour in a beautifully converted railway carriage .
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Miranda and Angus sat in a velvet-lined, crimson booth that reminded her of an old-fashioned railway carriage .
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But I am old-fashioned enough to dislike hearing it flung about in railway carriages by mixed school parties.
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He gave a slight sardonic grunt, remembering how excited he had been in that railway carriage on his way to Carewscourt.
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Later on some old railway carriages situated on the farm were also used.
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The passenger in the railway carriage would drop his head into his newspaper and avert his eyes from the window.
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In 1866 he emigrated to Philadelphia, where he painted railway carriages in the workshops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co.
company
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The railway companies soon turned their attention to the presidency cities of Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta.
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Private stations often resulted from deals done by railway companies with landlords as part of the purchase of land for railway development.
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Indeed they often constituted the source of their communities when new villages were laid out by the railway companies beside them.
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First she lifted the lid of a trunk plastered with the labels of railway companies .
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The railway company always intended to lease the Euston as a first-class hotel but tried at first to run the Victoria itself.
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A railway company came to Wall's aid and before long a trial was held under floodlit conditions.
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Sometimes the blacksmith would take on commissions from other organisations such as repair work for local factories or railway companies .
embankment
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The creamy yellow flowers grew in profusion on the slopes of an old railway embankment .
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Sniffing alone or in dangerous places, such as railway embankments and by canals, can be more risky.
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On a barbed-wire fence dividing the railway embankment from the meadow a lamb was caught.
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On his way drunkenly from the pub to the wood one night he fell down a railway embankment on to the line.
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Emotions have been running high in the community since James's body was found on a railway embankment .
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Back at the car, the two tarts still slouched against the wall next to the railway embankment .
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His mutilated body was found on a railway embankment in Walton last Sunday.
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Playing on the railway embankment was well beyond that tolerance.
enthusiast
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Yet railway enthusiasts do not know exactly which month it opened.
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On Sunday the railway enthusiasts move in.
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To the railway enthusiast , however, it was the location of a crack Southern Railway and Southern Region steam depot.
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The railway enthusiasts have spent six months and £5,000 repairing the Peckett Locomotive in time for the start of the steam weekends.
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Read in studio A lifelong railway enthusiast has been celebrating his perfect birthday.
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From there he told Wesley Smith about his life as a railway enthusiast , composer and rock climber.
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The walk was started by T.V. star Fred Wedlock who is himself a railway enthusiast .
line
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Few railway lines were built for non-economic reasons.
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James was found dead beside a railway line in Liverpool after disappearing from a shopping precinct in Bootle last month.
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We go off to another site, reached by a quarter mile trek along the main railway line .
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But when she did come back, with her own children, the railway line had been closed.
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The figure on the tracks was moving forward, stepping across the thrumming railway lines .
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Along the length of the railway line were timber yards, rope works, maltings and an iron foundry.
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The alert was raised after dozens of the large rodents were spotted on Main Street and by the railway line .
lines
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Within a few months, she had started a small clinic in a shed near the railway lines .
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Steam on the kitchen window cuts off the railway lines , making the tiny kitchen for once a friendly place.
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A quilted spread of ground descending an easy slope to the railway lines .
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These included bombs on London railway lines and a daring rocket attack on the headquarters of MI6 by the Thames.
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Soon villages by railway lines became centres of new craft industries, in wood-carving and other allegedly traditional bric-a-brac.
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They and their disused railway lines remind us of wealth in the last century - but unemployment during the last 50 years.
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The second half of the nineteenth century saw suburban development along the railway lines stretching out of Paris.
network
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Two other viaducts on the Borders railway network are also for sale, on the same terms.
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Canals also linked together the stagecoach and railway networks making long distance journeys easier.
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Birmingham is a the hub of the motorway and railway networks of Britain.
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Prussia had a railway network of 11,000 kilometres.
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Sir David Serpell's report suggested axing 85 percent of the railway network .
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The focal point of the policy developed by the government was the construction of a railway network .
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Radical plans for the railway network will be pushed through in parallel with the continuation of the huge road-building programme.
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Dzerzhinsky frequently thought of the railway network in very similar terms.
station
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Behind the taxis is a crowded railway station and beyond that, the port.
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The tube workers had a whip-round to pay for a taxi to the railway station .
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The film's adolescent hero becomes an assistant at a sleepy railway station .
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The incident to which my hon. Friend refers happened on track outside the railway station .
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Transport Organise trouble-free transport to and from the railway station , airport, or bus depot.
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Then she smiled at me in a brusque, dismissive manner and directed me to the railway station .
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This includes a hotel, nightclub, restaurants, new railway station and expansion of the ground.
steam
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Their many satisfied customers include gas and electricity companies, motor manufacturers, circuit board makers and steam railway maintenance organisations.
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There is a chance to carry out your own experiments, a steam railway , and a special laboratory for young people.
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But it was still a steam railway and remained so until after the turn of the century.
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The recession has obviously had an adverse effect on attractions throughout the country, not least of all steam railways .
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Railway: At the weekend you may actually become a train driver for a short distance on the steam railway !
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Upon completion, the loco will run on the E.L.R. with brief visits perhaps to other steam railways .
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There is an excellent zoo, some spectacular caves, a steam railway , and much more.
system
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All over the railway system , similarly expensive bridges and tunnels are nearing collapse.
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With the modernisation of the railway system , Brooke End signal box was abandoned, its structure left to stand forlorn.
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West Rail has been packaged into 17 civil engineering construction and 20 railway systems contracts.
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The Glasgow underground railway system like the London underground counterpart has some very strange and totally unexplained events.
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Indeed George Stephenson originally envisaged the railway system as an extension of the colliery system.
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The railway system continued to figure largely in high political planning in 1922.
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The lack of an efficient railway system was a major contributing factor to the stagnant economy.
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Indeed, tighter financial targets increasingly conflicted with the consensual political decision to maintain a certain size of railway system .
timetable
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Reliably tied-in with the railway timetable are the yellow post-buses which take mail and people to every village.
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A railway timetable provides a good and simple example of a prudential practice.
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So tennis fans can, for the moment, pout away their railway timetables .
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Then he looked in a railway timetable for a town that he did not know.
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The delays caused by such action can have considerable impact on services because the integrated railway timetable is very susceptible to disruption.
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We know that a war can start over a telegram, a railway timetable or the ear of some one called Jenkins.
track
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Now consider a man standing beside the railway track , who witnesses the flash emitted just as the servant passes him.
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He frightened train crews who saw him walking aimlessly on the railway tracks as if he were a real person.
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Brother Mariadas led me across the railway tracks to the Rehabilitation Centre.
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The railway tracks and pedestrian walk ran along the upper level-the top of the box.
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Voice over There's 42 miles of railway track in the 15 square miles the base covers.
worker
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Workers in other public enterprises were also prevented from striking although this did not stop strikes by postal and railway workers.
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Mr Brown said the former railway worker often said he felt he was dying but never hinted he might kill himself.
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In settler colonies, a higher proportion of railway workers was white.
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He had been a railway worker and was called to the ministry.
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The 53-year-old railway worker abused his stepdaughter and two step-granddaughters in a 12-year reign of terror.
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He had also been a trade union official, once leading a strike of railway workers in 1989.
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The fertility rate of railway workers declined rapidly following the expansion of promotion hierarchies at the end of the century.
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The miners were joined by striking railway workers , who halted freight traffic.
■ VERB
build
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The latter, involving heavy industry, was made possible by the building of the railways .
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One could build not only a railway terminal there, but the fifth London airport and no one would notice.
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Landless peasants suited Doumer; they could be employed in mines or on rubber plantations, or to build roads and railways .
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It was no way to build railways .
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The original payoff for building the railway was a swathe of the adjoining land.
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They were building new railways across the world, but there had to be an extraordinary reason to do that in Britain.
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If you want to build a railway then Jim and his team will consider manufacturing the rolling stock for you.
run
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His killer ran off towards Banbury railway station where police say they found a weapon hidden in the men's toilet.
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Make no mistake running a railway is big business.
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It also runs along an old railway trackbed, in this instance that of the East Norfolk Railway.
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She then ran back to the railway station and met up with her boyfriend.
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Fifteen states have passed laws enabling private operators to run roads and railways: the state of Washington did so last month.
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And along the base of the fell runs the highest railway in the country, the famous Settle to Carlisle line.
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The Basingstoke Canal runs parallel with the railway in the background.
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This was partly the result of the practical difficulties of running the railway with the resources available.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And what's the Ghost Train but a model railway set of which one becomes a passenger?
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But the railways were also involved in the next stage of the life of some of the fruit harvested round the country.
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He was sent at the age of 14 to work as an office boy at the city railway station.
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It was no way to build railways.
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Scientific illustration meant not only pictures of animals, plants and rocks, but also of bridges, gas-works and railways.
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The state railway , disrupted on Monday when farmers laid blazing barricades across the tracks, faces more trouble.