I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.
I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway.
I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that; it's not some kind of straight railway.
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.
It is a matter of life and death for us; for the lead we gain by day on ships and railways is lost each night.
My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.
You can go and see the Katihar railway station. This is the most beautiful station in Bihar, even better than the Patna junction.
'Homeward Bound.' I find myself listening to that tune a lot when I'm traveling. Sitting in a railway station, wanting to go home, carrying all your stuff with you.
My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.
People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
If was, increased by a lack of railways in Russia - for bringing up supplies to our advancing troops.
The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California.
My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.
As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.
Colonel Nicholson: Now, there's another important decision that can't be postponed. As most of the British soldiers will be working on the bridge, only a small number will be available for railway work. So, I must ask you, Colonel Saito, to lend us s...
So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending.
You can’t walk till the end on an active railway line and you can’t walk till the end on the road of lies, because sooner or later you collide with the truth!
In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government.
