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 Smith and Havens also were the prime movers behind the famed Key System railway lines. George Avalos, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2025 The Brightline West railway line is set to run between Las Vegas, Nevada, and Rancho Cucamonga, California. Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025 Initiated in 2017 under China's Belt and Road Initiative, the Thai government is responsible for the entire investment, civil works construction, and the application of Chinese construction technologies and railway systems. Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025 This has confined many panda subpopulations to isolated patches of habitat carved by roads, railways, dams and farms, cutting them off from new bamboo forests and potential mates. Nectar Gan, CNN, 26 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for railway 

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“Railway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/railway. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.

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