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railways

n. (plural of railway English)

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Railways (film)

is a Japanese film released on 29 May 2010. The film was produced by Shūji Abe, directed by Yoshinari Nishikōri, and stars Kiichi Nakai and Reiko Takashima.

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These little forts were dotted along the railways at points not more than 2000 yards apart, and when supplemented by a system of armoured trains they made it no easy matter for the Boers to tamper with or to cross the lines.

Any man thoroughly versed in railways and quite up to business, and especially accustomed to the management of men and the conduct of serious negotiation, could easily accomplish this.

Lawrence, by means of which his Company are to reach the Eastern Railways of the United States, without having to use the great Victoria Bridge at Montreal.

Between Nepigon and Port Arthur the line runs through a country much more accessible for railways, and the schedule time here is at the rate of 24 miles an hour.

It would be inadequate to write of the Great Canadian Pacific Railway without some reference to the history of railways in Canada itself.

This trestle bridge plan of expediting the completion, and cheapening the construction, of new railways, wants more study, at home.

But I consoled myself with the reflection, that if we had not gained the best, we had secured the next best, grand scheme--a scheme which, as time goes on, will be extended and improved, as the original Pacific Railways of the United States have been.

This Railway gave us communication, not only with Canada and with 10,000 miles of American railways, but with the vast tract of British territory extending across to the Pacific.

Both these gentlemen were very polite, and gave me orders to pass over their railways when I pleased.

It seemed to me, also, that the use of existing railways in the United States was not only economical, but politic: and I knew that, at that time, the Government of the North would have made every reasonable advance to meet England in affairs of mutual interest.

Minnesota, a man to whom the United States and Canada are each deeply indebted, for the completion of railways from St.

Although the main advance of the invaders was along the lines of the two railways, they ventured, as they realised how weak the forces were which opposed them, to break off both to the east and west, occupying Dordrecht on one side and Steynsberg on the other.

Orange Free State, took possession of Bethulie, and sent on the cavalry to Springfontein, which is the junction where the railways from Cape Town and from East London meet.

Both these railways were strongly blockhoused and barbed-wired, so that any force which was driven into the angle, and held in it by a force behind it, would be in a perilous position.

I conceive it to be true that the railways are afraid to put themselves at variance with the general feeling of the people.