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Example sentences for "railway companies"

  • On the outskirts of London there were a number of commons and other tracts of open ground available for public resort, to which the public had no legal rights, and which were rapidly being absorbed by railway companies or builders.

  • Eighteen hundred and fifty-one was a period of anxiety to the Midland and to railway companies generally.

  • This Act, although in it the word railway does not appear, is an important Act to railway companies, and possesses the singular and uncommon merit of having been framed for the protection of Common Carriers.

  • Governments have ever kept a watchful eye on railway companies.

  • The answer will be found in the figures which we print further on, relating to the amount of foreign capital invested in the Argentine; in Government bonds, shares in railway companies, or other undertakings, public or private.

  • We think that there is a plain and obvious distinction between the service rendered by the Post Office in the conveyance of letters and printed matter, and that rendered by railway companies in conveyance of parcels.

  • To a large extent--in the United Kingdom at any rate--such a service would be a duplication of services already provided by railway companies, and consequently economically wasteful.

  • These pools are the legitimate and necessary results of the rechartering over and over again of railway companies to transact business between the same points by paralleling each other.

  • The trouble which is bestowed by railway companies to cause the restitution of lost property is incalculable.

  • The question of the liability of railway companies in the event of personal accident through parcels falling from a rack in the compartments of passenger trains has been raised in the Midlands.

  • Yes, sir, as you truly remark, railway companies ain't fairly dealt with, by no means.

  • The risks that are thus run by railway companies will be seen to be excessive, especially when it is considered that excursion trains afford but slight remuneration, while many of them convey enormous numbers of passengers.

  • Indeed, there are various canals whose continued operation to-day, in spite of the losses on their wholly unremunerative traffic, is due exclusively to the fact that they are owned or controlled by railway companies.

  • The first condition of any useful discussion of railway rates is that all interests shall be considered--the interests of all traders, and of all consumers, as well as of railway companies.

  • The following observations do not attempt to correct or remove all the misconceptions in circulation, or to answer all the charges against English railway companies.

  • I can elucidate that in a very remarkable manner, and shew the injustice that the carrying out of the principle would inflict upon some railway companies, especially where goods are concerned.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    come around; could name; dear count; drop down; failing health; five shillings; get possession; little rough; negro school; other villages; pointing hand; railway carriage; railway companies; railway company; railway construction; railway from; railway rates; railway station; railway stations; railway trains; real existence; remain faithful; tell whether; three were; urgent need; with equal