People's lives are in the care of the railways when they get on a train. The railways should remember that.
...a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.
Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.
It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done.
So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to stay on the train, without bothering about arriving anywhere: sight...
The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction.
[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and...
There was a pleasant party of barge people round the fire. You might not have thought it pleasant, but they did; for they were all friends or acquaintances, and they liked the same sort of things, and talked the same sort of talk. This is the real se...
I'm proud to be a railway modeler.
I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them.
In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.
I'm proud to be a railway modeler. It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to be on the cover of a music magazine.
It is just an illusion of freedom. We are, perhaps, as free as a railway carriage.
The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads.
I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way.
Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.
The Ethiopian government's use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was, in practice, a hazardous regards transport of arms intended for the Ethiopian forces.
The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.
