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Example sentences for: railways

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The pronunciation of place names has been tending to conform to their written appearance ever since the coming of the railways, and I notice that the letter t is now always sounded in Hertfordshire , as is the letter l in Colchester .
In running the empire effectively, the British installed railways, better roads, the telegraph, and stamp-post.
With the arrival of the railways in the mid-1800s, the city grew almost exponentially as new lines led to the spread of Victorian suburbs such as Marchmont and Morningside.
Modern shipping and the advent of the railways crippled its port activities, and the city now lives from the service industries of tourism and provincial government administration.
From the Japan Railways station at Kita (North) Kamakura, about an hour from Tokyo on the Yokosuka line, you can easily reach six of these temples.