as in road
a roadway overlaid with parallel steel rails over which trains travel a system of railways that crisscrosses the whole nation

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Recent Examples of railway There's very little battlefield action, the war elements mostly taking place in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, where many soldiers, including Australian medical student protagonist Dorrigo Evans (Jacob Elordi), are forced to work on the Burma railway. Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025 Daxing International Airport is also conveniently connected directly to China’s high-speed railways as well as local Beijing trains, making access to the airport easy. Mae Hamilton, AFAR Media, 9 Sep. 2025 So Xinjiang launched an ambitious initiative to fuse data from all available sources, including banks, railways, and phone companies, into a central database. Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025 Texas hold ups California isn’t the only state to get its federal high-speed railway funding slashed. Ben Jones, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for railway
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Noun
  • The project aims to remove more than 1 million heavy goods vehicles from roads in the western Alps between France and Italy.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Most of them are going to come down to track position, pit strategy, executing on pit road.
    Lydia Mee, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The railroads are spending right now and building bridges with the push to bring jobs back to America.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
  • As automobiles and airplanes gained ground, railroad companies remained fixated on maintaining tracks and trains.
    Amiad Solomon, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Railway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/railway. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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