Synonyms

1. railroad
2. railroad track

Sentence Examples

1. You see, a man of sound sense ought not to spend his life jumping from a steamer upon a railway train, and from a railway train upon a steamer again, pretending to make the tour of the world in eighty days!
2. It would have been much easier just to have killed them all at the railway station or in their homes.
3. Having transacted his business at the passport office, Phileas Fogg repaired quietly to the railway station, where he ordered dinner.
4. The cab stopped before the railway station at twenty minutes past eight.
5. This railway does not run in a direct line across India.
6. Passepartout, on waking and looking out, could not realise that he was actually crossing India in a railway train.
7. Then they came upon vast tracts extending to the horizon, with jungles inhabited by snakes and tigers, which fled at the noise of the train succeeded by forests penetrated by the railway, and still haunted by elephants which, with pensive eyes, gazed at the train as it passed.
8. The greater part of the passengers from Brindisi were bound for India some for Bombay, others for Calcutta by way of Bombay, the nearest route thither, now that a railway crosses the Indian peninsula.
9. Formerly one was obliged to travel in India by the old cumbrous methods of going on foot or on horseback, in palanquins or unwieldy coaches now fast steamboats ply on the Indus and the Ganges, and a great railway, with branch lines joining the main line at many points on its route, traverses the peninsula from Bombay to Calcutta in three days.