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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. Ashok Gulati:

    It is unlikely that India will have another drought next year; three years in a row has never happened before, but with extreme events increasing due to climate change, you never know. If we don't wake up now then, God forbid, people will leave farming to become labourers at railways stations.

  2. Rumen Draganov:

    It's a shame that Bulgarian railways are in such a poor condition, you need more than eight hours to reach the Black Sea from Sofia, it's just ridiculous.

  3. Joschka Fischer:

    If you want to have regional cooperation you need connectivity, streets, railways. It is important that this is understood by Brussels.

  4. Kelvin Baxter:

    The whole time I've been trucking, the railways have been going to replace me, but that hasn't happened, at the moment, our concerns are finding enough drivers.

  5. Kazuhiko Higuchi:

    The assistance will help railways better serve needs of people and movement of goods, and help improve domestic and subregional trade, this project will also help improve the overall railway transport system in Bangladesh, and aims to reduce transport costs and improve logistics of strategic corridors, such as Dhaka-Chittagong link, for subregional trade.

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  • السكك الحديديةArabic

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