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A railway is a route between two places along which trains travel on steel rails.(mainly BRIT; in AM,usually use railroad)
The road ran beside a railway.
...a disused railway line.
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A railway is a company or organization that operates railway routes.(BRIT; in AM,use railroad)
...the state-owned French railway.
...the privatisation of the railways.
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A railway is the system and network of tracks that trains travel on.(mainly AM)