Definition of Railway system

1. Noun. Line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Railway System

railside
railway
railway car
railway carriage
railway carriages
railway gun
railway guns
railway junction
railway line
railway lines
railway locomotive
railway man
railway sleeper
railway station
railway stations
railway system (current term)
railway tie
railway time
railway track
railway train
railway vehicle
railway vehicles
railway yard
railwayana
railwayless
railwaylike
railwayman
railwaymen
railways
railworks

Literary usage of Railway system

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1848)
"Facts bearing on the Progress of the railway system. By WYNDHAM HARDING. ... THE modern railway system of Europe may be said to date from 1830, ..."

2. Treaties and Agreements with and Concerning China, 1894-1919: A Collection by John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1921)
"... Siberia led to a suggestion by the American Government for the unified control of the Siberian railway system (including the Chinese Eastern Railway), ..."

3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1883)
"The consequence of this Prussian railway policy would then probably be that, by enlargement of the state railway system, and full development of the ..."

4. Railway Economy: A Treatise on the New Art of Transport, Its Management by Dionysius Lardner (1850)
"It was not, however, until after 1830 that the railway system began to assume in America the character which it had already taken in England. ..."

5. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1888)
"... Operating Expenses 386 Electric railway system, Conduit 364 Electric Railways, Some Objections to Overhead Conductors for 408 Electric railway system, ..."

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