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...enter convention center], a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_station railway station], an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_terminal airport termin

:b : an enclosed entrance at the end of a railway passenger car

...ans subgrade, the native [[material]] underneath a constructed pavement or railway. The word is a combination of the [[Latin]] prefix "infra", [[meaning]] "be

...omatic full barriers'' are a set of four half-barriers closing a road at a railway [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_crossing level crossing].

..., prosperous, successful, tedious, uncomfortable journey; a j. by railway, railway j., j. on foot; j. to London, to the continent, into the country, etc. Phra

...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Gurdjieff Gurdjieff] while seated in a railway carriage.

* A French railway strike of 1910, when workers destroyed the wooden shoes, or sabots, that he ...nes in the late 1990s in an attempt to extort DM10 million from the German railway operator Deutsche Bahn. He is now serving a sentence of life imprisonment.

...h supplied many of the codebreakers, at Bletchley with the main West Coast railway line from London. It was also chosen for its proximity to a major road A5 t

...widespread use immediately, notably in shipbuilding and the manufacture of railway locomotives and rolling stock.

Perspective is also seen in the way the parallel lines of railway tracks appear to meet at a distant point, the ''[[vanishing point]]''. Thi

...get you into great difficulties. One does not bravely risk a picnic on a railway track, a siesta at the very edge of a cliff, or in a tree top. Being devoi

...tween two levels; and inclined planes where a caisson is hauled up a steep railway.

...he phrase "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape-Cairo_railway Cape to Cairo railway]" subsequently popularized by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Rhodes C

...airways, waterways, canals and pipelines, and terminals such as airports, railway stations, bus stations, warehouses, trucking terminals, refueling depots (i

* The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality, and Foregiveness, Eric Loma

...controls, and tossed out at the end of the day into the entrance halls of railway stations, those cathedrals of departure for the hell of weekdays and the nu

::d. In the restaurant-car of a railway train, on a ship, etc.: the serving of a meal at one of a number of separat

...cover it up decently any longer, this commonplace creature roams naked in railway stations and vacant lots; it confronts you at each evasion of yourself, it

Clara But it's like a train going along a railway line, you don't see it, but you know it's there.

...is poetry? In 1895, during an ill-advised and seemingly foredoomed French railway worker's strike, one trade unionist stood up and mentioned and ingenious an

...must usually be clear for -mile beyond his home signal. 1968 L. T. C. ROLT Railway Engin. vi. 93 By exhibiting three, or in some cases four, ‘aspects’ the

The building was a stop on the underground railway prior to and during the

...nd remained a prisoner of war until 1945, working on the construction of a railway that crossed Thailand a feat that inspired the Pierre Boulle novel "Bridge

...oom, and waiting-rooms for the several classes of bathers. 1910 Bradshaw's Railway Guide Apr. 1148 Suites of rooms with private Bathrooms. 1995 Sun 26 Apr. 23 ...efly U.S., a privately owned and used railway carriage; (sometimes also) a railway carriage not available for public use; (b) a motor car owned and used priva

...19th centuries promoted major innovations in [[transport]], such as the [[railway]] and [[automobile]]; [[energy development]], such as [[coal]] and [[electr