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railway track

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meanings of railwayand track


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railway
noun[C]
uk /ˈreɪl.weɪ/ us /ˈreɪl.weɪ/
the metal tracks on which ...
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track
noun
uk /træk/ us /træk/
the pair of long metal bars fixed on the ground at an equal distance from each other, along which ...
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Examples of railway track


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The poor who live in the city's periphery are huddled in bustees along the railwaytrack.
I'd rather be in a little corrugated hut somewhere on the side of the railwaytrack, no my children do not owe me a cent.
The preachers left the town by train, forcing the police to line up along a quarter mile of railwaytrack to ensure its safety.
If he thinks that there might be future developments in an area, he sees that the railwaytrack is kept in position.
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Disused railwaytrack will continue to be used in road schemes whenever it is practicable and economic to do so.
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It is important to understand how the railwaytrack becomes flooded.
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The site was previously used for railwaytrack and engine sheds, and a former railway cutting has been filled with domestic refuse.
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In paragraph 166 of the report a complicated comparison is made between freight railwaytrack costs and lorry road costs.
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Any damage which was occurring was to the railwaytrack supporting structure or to deck plates both of which are capable of being repaired.
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Criticism has also been made about the railwaytrack.
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A motorist travels upon a road which he does not know and assumes that it is his private railwaytrack.
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Of these, 190,000, roughly nine-tenths, are ordinary roads and 19,000, roughly one-tenth, are specialised railwaytrack.
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Imagine going to dive into one's pool only to find it has changed into a railwaytrack.
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A motorway is a much simpler proposition than a railwaytrack.
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They strayed not only on to public roads but actually on to a railwaytrack and caused a very serious accident.
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An 80-tonne boulder and 10,000 tonnes of cliff rubble had to be removed from the railwaytrack before the mainline track could be re-opened.
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Their uses run from being a power source for camping and caravanning to providing power for railwaytrack lubricating units.
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In other words, the flow of floodwater can be controlled so that it does not flood the railwaytrack.
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We should have a vast expansion of the roads programme and a fundamental tackling of the railway system—improvements in railwaytrack, signalling and rolling stock.
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It then travelled along and down the embankment behind the safety barrier before falling down the railway cutting and onto the railwaytrack.
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