Sentence examples for Rail from high-quality English sources.

• Monorail, railway that runs on a single rail.

• Executives from Network Rail were also questioned by MPs.

• A Tory government after May 2015 would deliver more of the same in rail policy.

• According to a 2019 publication from the Office of Rail and Road, 63 per cent of rail journeys started or ended in London.

• Successive governments have increasingly invested in rail since the early 2000s.

• One senior rail figure described Philip Hammond’s announcement as a “stocking filler”.

• And as climate change becomes an increasing concern, the environmental credentials of rail are key.

• But the rail unions see this is as preparing the ground for a Conservative reprivatisation of Network Rail.

Use Rail in a sentence.

• “Rail trail projects must meet all NSW government criteria for a successful endeavour before work progresses to close the rail line.”

• “Ironically, the counties along these rail lines will face increased environmental risks due to the increased amount of crude oil traveling by rail.”

• BART rapid rail connects the city with the greater Bay Area to the east, and CalTrain’s commuter rail service runs along the San Francisco Peninsula.

• The penalty was imposed by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) after an investigation found Network Rail in breach of its licence conditions in 2014-15.

• Last year Spanish competition watchdogs fined Deutsche Bahn and Renfe, Spain’s state rail company, over €75m for collusion in the country’s rail-freight market.

• In an interim report on the debacle, the Office of Rail and Road singled out the train operators Govia Thameslink Railway and Northern, Network Rail and the DfT for criticism, saying their mistakes had led to the collapse of services.

• Paul Plummer, chief executive of The Rail Delivery Group, representing train operators and Network Rail, said: "The Rail Safety and Standards Board is an independent body and its valuable work and research has helped to ensure that Britain has Europe's safest railway.

• “The launch of the National Rail 26-30 Railcard marks a key milestone in the rail industry’s commitment to boost local communities by making rail travel more accessible,” said Jacqueline Starr, Managing Director of Customer Experience at Rail Delivery Group.

Rail sentence examples

• “The two pilot rail trails will provide the NSW government with a better understanding of the full range of tourism and recreational opportunities of rail trail projects and will allow insights gained to be applied to any future rail trail projects,” a Transport for NSW spokesman said.

• The South Yorkshire project was funded by the Department for Transport, with an eye to setting up tram-trains elsewhere, but the project is run by the South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (SYPTE) and Stagecoach, the local tram operator, as well as National Rail and Network Rail on the, well, rail side.

• Paul Plummer, the chief executive of the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators and Network Rail, said: “Our ambition to deliver a once-in-a-generation step change in the quality of rail services is right, but reliability for customers must come first, and that’s what today’s announcement aims to ensure.”

• Chinese-built and -financed projects include a two-year-old light-rail system in the Ethiopian capital; a $13 billion rail link between the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and the port city of Mombasa that will open later this year; and an ambitious rail modernization project in Nigeria that includes an urban transit system for Lagos.