# railway

Pronunciation: US say "RAYL-way" /ˈɹeɪlˌweɪ/; UK

## Noun

1. A transport system that runs on rails and carries passengers or goods. *(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK)*
   - Simple: A system for moving people or goods along rails.
   - _Victorian investors poured their savings into railway shares._
   - _Her grandfather worked on the railway for forty years, latterly as a signalman._
2. A track of parallel rails along which wheeled vehicles such as trains can travel. *(Commonwealth, Ireland, Philippines, UK)*
   - Simple: A track made of rails side by side that trains and other vehicles run on.
   - _A flock of sheep strayed onto the railway and brought the morning train to a halt._
   - _Hundreds of miles of railway were laid across the country in a single decade._

## Origin

Formed from rail + way.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/railway (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).