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  1. railways

    Plural form of railway.

    The railways in our country are excellent and the government are investing a lot of money to upgrade and improve those railways that need it most.


    Submitted by MaryC on January 27, 2016  

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  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'RAILWAYS' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4826

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'RAILWAYS' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4201

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of RAILWAYS in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of RAILWAYS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of RAILWAYS in a Sentence

  1. Hiram Stevens Maxim:

    But I do not think the flying machine will ever be used for ordinary traffic and for what may be called "popular" purposes. People who write about the conditions under which the business and pleasure of the world will be carried on in another hundred years generally make flying machines take the place of railways and steamers, but that such will ever be the case I very much doubt.

  2. Jon Worth:

    On quite a few corridors, rail could get a share of multimodal transportation way above the current one. Rail operators have focused on maximizing profit rather than market share. The latter can only be achieved either by running railways as a public service or by introducing more competition.

  3. Oleksandr Kamyshin:

    For me, it's the best assessment of Ukrainian Railways if foreign prime ministers chose railways instead of a car or a helicopter, or any other option.

  4. Middle East:

    China has earned much of its leverage in the region, especially on the African side of the Red Sea/Gulf of Aden, by becoming the leading financier and builder of infrastructure projects such as dams, roads, railways, and IT networks.

  5. Canfranc Fernando Sánchez Morales:

    We are working on a project that will change Canfranc, every day we hear more feedback saying that this railways line is necessary and needs to be reopened.

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  • السكك الحديديةArabic

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