Example sentences of "railway company [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In October 1917 , minute 27640 states : The Acting General Manager mentioned that in connection with the aeroplanes which the Railway Companies had been asked to construct for the government , the L & NW had undertaken at Wolverton a share of the work , i.e. construction of wings . |
| 2 | At first Canadian settlement had been largely along the border with the United States , south of the 50th parallel , and American railway companies had taken Canadian grain to the world market . |
| 3 | The old railway companies had almost Meccano kits for bridges which were built as standard in various places . |
| 4 | It was as though the railway companies wished to put their excursionists in the mood , remind them of the rather light-hearted , somewhat extravagant outing they were engaged upon , quite different from everyday commuting and business travel . |
| 5 | It was in 1851 that the Great Northern Railway established its locomotive works in Doncaster , and twelve years later the amalgamation of a number of railway companies led to the first regional monopoly , the North Eastern Railway , this business being engineered mainly by George Hudson , the ‘ Railway King ’ . |
| 6 | Britain 's railway companies laid increasing emphasis on freight , in pursuit of the dictum of Captain Mark Huish of the London and North-Western Railway : ‘ Quantity is the essential element of Railway success . ’ |
| 7 | Sometimes the lack of co-ordination among the different Indian railway companies made things difficult for pilgrims . |
| 8 | Although the imperial and colonial railway companies discovered that Indians and Africans desired to travel in large numbers and contributed the bulk of passenger earnings , little money was spent on their comforts . |
| 9 | Nevertheless its greater flexibility ensured the eventual triumph of the head-type and many railway companies killed two birds with one stone by building a hotel to serve as station frontage . |
| 10 | In these decades the Intercolonial railway was built to connect the eastern provinces , the Grand Trunk and several other railway companies penetrated the country districts of Ontario as well as connecting Canadian cities to each other and to the United States , while Canadian Pacific stretched its metals westwards to Vancouver . |
| 11 | The railway companies did not initially appreciate their potential as a means of mass cheap travel and concentrated on providing for the better-off . |
| 12 | In the 1860s he introduced the circular ticket which gave the traveller a single ticket to cover a journey rather than a handful from all the separate railway companies involved . |
| 13 | Indeed the railway companies resisted the idea of workmen 's trains , for which from the middle of the nineteenth century there had been a vocal lobby . |
| 14 | The railway companies built stations to accommodate passengers who never materialized , to flatter a vanity which was shortly to meet its fall in the face of both economic recession and the rise of alternative modes of transportation . |
| 15 | In France , the railway companies underestimated the demand for their services . |
| 16 | The old lady 's luggage was partly destroyed , and the railway company wrote to her about it at her Sheffield address . |
| 17 | Old servants of the railway company came into the signal-box from which the broadcast was given and spoke of the closing of the station as if for them it was the end of a world . |
| 18 | A railway company came to Wall 's aid and before long a trial was held under floodlit conditions . |
| 19 | Property therefore could not pass until the railway company made the allotments . |
| 20 | Glasgow took to the subway with a will , but an unexpected flood of passengers and an accident that injured 19 people , closed the circles until January the following year , when the Glasgow Subway Railway Company began operations in earnest . |
| 21 | By a special act of Parliament every railway company had to run at least one train each day for which the fare was one penny a mile . |
| 22 | Until 1 October 1903 , the Railway Company had borne all the costs for these schools and teachers had travelling privileges identical to those of Works employees . |
| 23 | When the town was first built , the Railway Company had great difficulty in locating a pure water supply . |
| 24 | The windows had been broken years ago but the railway company had boarded the frames up with wooden battens which were very effective ; they did however allow a view into the building and although the children could see in they were fascinated with the place and were happy playing in the cutting . |
| 25 | In that case the railway company had carried the parcels of other persons at a rate less than similar parcels were carried by it for the plaintiff . |
| 26 | In 1900 a dispute arose because it was said that the Taff Vale Railway Company had victimized a trade unionist who led a wage demand . |
| 27 | Then , in 1882 , the Lynn and Fakenham Railway Company extended their line from Fakenham to Norwich via Melton . |
| 28 | It was alleged that at first the railway company denied that they had been travelling on the train at all , and it was indeed suggested that the two children were chance victims of the holocaust and they happened to be wandering by the railway at the time . |
| 29 | In Britain the Midland Railway Company announced its intention in 1872 to admit third-class passengers to all of its trains at a penny-a-mile fare and in 1874 to abolish second class and reduce all first-class fares to second-class rates . |
| 30 | At least one railway company regularized this by posting weather symbols on the side of trains for the benefit of local farming communities . |