Railways

A railway is a means of transport.

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Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
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British Rail
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Ian Marchant
Railways, like Daleks, have difficulties in getting up hills.
Ian Marchant, Parallel Lines: Or, Journeys on the Railway of Dreams

More coal, more smoke, more heat, more steam, more pressure, more speed. The engine raced forward streaming black smoke like a funerary ribbon rippling in the breeze.
Martin R Jackson : Running with Finn McCool

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