Railways Quotations

If was, increased by a lack of railways in Russia - for bringing up supplies to our advancing troops.

When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them.

The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads.

We actually know that our crumbling pipelines, roads, and bridges are ticking time bombs. That is why President Obama and Congressional Democrats have pushed to fund jobs that repair our roads, runways, and railways - we can't have first rate American communities with third-world American infrastructure.

My Swedish grandmother was the daughter of a dairy farmer who lived near Hedemora. My Swedish grandfather worked as a clerk for the Swedish railways in the Stockholm station.

The murder of my husband by the railways has altered the way I think about everything. I had always thought that the majority of people were decent and honourable. In the wake of the crash, what made me angry more than anything else was the realisation that this was not true. I still find it very hard to come to terms with.

We have got into Indian railways and are trying to get into the railway locomotive business in Europe and the United States.

We have done a lot of work on cost reduction, getting ourselves lean, reducing our breakeven, reducing our fixed cost and increasing exports. All of these factors help because our export basket is not just automotive but also includes industrial products, railways and others.

Like a majority of the population and a majority of even Tory voters, I want the railways back in public ownership.

If Britain's railways are to play a future role in meeting our transport needs in the foreseeable future, they must be freed from their regulatory straitjacket.

Enhanced safety railways and buses, we always need transportation.

We're talking about transporting roughly 70,000 metric tons of deadly waste from nuclear facilities in 39 states across our nation's highways, railways and waterways to Yucca Mountain,

Two sets of railways will be laid so nearly level as not in any place to deviate more than two degrees from a horizontal line, made of wood or iron, on smooth paths of broken stone or gravel, with a rail to guide the carriages so that they may pass each other in different directions and travel by night as well as by day; and the passengers will sleep in these stages as comfortably as they do now in steam stage-boats.

I know the prime minister is in full agreement with the action we have taken so far in relation to the railways and ... he wants me to get on with the job to improve the railway system,

No system is ever perfect and there is always need for a review. So we have decided that every month, the ADG of railways will go everywhere by rotation and hold co-ordination meetings with the key officials of the RPF.