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I'm proud to be a railway modeler.
Rod Stewart
/
Singer-Songwriter
Proud
Railway
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She had more curves than a scenic railway
P. G. Wodehouse
/
Writer
Curves
Railway
Scenic
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A railway station is something that can generate a city.
Santiago Calatrava
/
Architect
Railway
City
Generate
Station
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In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.
Lalu Prasad Yadav
/
Politician
Immense
Indian
Railway
Untapped Potential
Views
Potential
Railways
View
Untapped
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I want to see a publicly-owned railway, publicly accountable.
Tony Blair
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Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Railway
Want
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A public, unified and integrated railway - hardly controversial.
Caroline Lucas
/
Former Member Of The European Parliament
Controversial
Integrated
Railway
Unified
Hardly
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If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.
Michael Flanders
/
Actor
God
Flanders
Given
Railway
God Never Us
Had
Never
He
Fly
Intended
Railways
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An active and vibrant railway system confers many benefits on the society.
Yemi Osinbajo
/
Active
Benefits
Railway
Vibrant
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The first significant work I did was a railway station in Zurich called Stadelhofen.
Santiago Calatrava
/
Architect
Railway
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I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway.
George Stephenson
/
Civil Engineer
Glad
Parliament
Railway
Bill
Passed
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Railway network will support efforts to diversify the economy and enhance our export potentials.
Yemi Osinbajo
/
Economy
Railway
Support
Diversify
Efforts
Enhance
Export
Network
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Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching.
Timothy Morton
/
Future
Junction
Past
Railway
Touching
Another
Over
Past And Future
Sliding
Where
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Who doesn't like playing with a railway? I think we've all got Thomas the Tank Engine in our blood.
Dick Strawbridge
/
Railway
Engine
Tank
Thomas
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Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.
James J. Hill
/
Executive
Great
Men
Travel
Adventure
Railway
Share
Most
Had
Lived
Mine
Some
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It is right for us not to want our country transformed into a mere corridor, a giant railway station.
Marine Le Pen
/
Member Of The European Parliament
Mere
Railway
Transformed
Corridor
Giant
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I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
Natalie Dormer
/
Film Actress
Nepal
Railway
Cross
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The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.
Dinah Sheridan
/
Film Actress
Corsets
Favourite
Railway
Drawer
Relic
Prized
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My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.
Hilary Mantel
/
Writer
Ambition
Boys
Knights
Railway
Turning
Guard
Intended
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Don't be too optimistic while you are tied to a railway when the train is coming; it won't be helpful for the solution!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
/
Writer
Optimistic
Helpful
Railway
Train
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We have got into Indian railways and are trying to get into the railway locomotive business in Europe and the United States.
Baba Kalyani
/
Indian
Railway
Locomotive
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The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
Friedrich Nietzsche
/
Philologist
Conclusion
Premises
Railway
Telegraph
Dared
Draw
Press
Whose
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You can go and see the Katihar railway station. This is the most beautiful station in Bihar, even better than the Patna junction.
Tariq Anwar
/
Junction
Railway
Most Beautiful
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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.
Richard Flanagan
/
Novelist
Linear
Railway
History Me Way
Europeans
Neatly
Struck
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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.
Rod Stewart
/
Singer-Songwriter
Magazines
Mean
Proud
Railway
Music Me More
Cover
Magazine
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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.
E. M. Forster
/
Novelist
Travel
Adventure
Alas
Gates
Glorious
Railway
Return
Sunshine
Unknown
Through
Pass
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I was warned by the private sector that we would fail and would fail badly. 'The state can't run a railway,' I was told. Well, they were wrong.
Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
/
Private Sector
Railway
Badly
Sector
Warned
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Chinese engineers have spent years finding solutions to the problems of building a railway line on permafrost ground at altitudes above 4,000 metre.
Prashant Bhushan
/
Engineers
Railway
Solutions
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Man's endeavour to cross even the most difficult terrain with railway lines has produced some of the most stunning marvels of engineering of the modern age.
Prashant Bhushan
/
Endeavour
Engineering
Modern Age
Railway
Terrain
Cross
Produced
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I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
/
Inventor
Running
Ak 47
Railway
Wanted
Run
Developed
Engine
Invent
Looked
Stayed
Though
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'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.
Steven Hall
/
Author
Railway
Carrying
Go Home
Tune
Wanting
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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.
Haile Selassie
/
Political Figure
Arms
Practice
Railway
Transport
Forces
Hazardous
Intended
Regards
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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.
Dinah Sheridan
/
Film Actress
Running
Smile
Children
Framed
Husband
Lovely
Railway
Track
Desk
Poster
Smiling
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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.
John Moody
/
Financial Analyst
Civil War
Federal Government
Grants
Lines
Railway
Various
Assisted
Civil
Decade
Federal
North
Projected
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My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers in 1943. Between 100,000 and 200,000 died.
Richard Flanagan
/
Novelist
Prisoner
Railway
Slave
Survivor
Japanese
Quarter
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Street-casting - people like Katie Jarvis in 'Fish Tank,' spotted having a row with her boyfriend on a railway platform - has helped make actors raise their game. They have to.
Joe Dempsie
/
Actor
Boyfriend
Railway
Fish
Platform
Row
Tank
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I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes.
Nina Bawden
/
Novelist
Abandoned
Dislike
Husband
Railway
Shoes
Track
Unwanted
Idly
Pair
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They were both academics, but my dad had to get a job on the railway, and my mum had to get a job in the Post Office. It was pretty hard in terms of the racism they had to endure.
Naveen Andrews
/
Actor
Endure
Mum
Office
Post Office
Racism
Railway
Academics
Post
Terms
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If you are a fan of my BBC series 'Great Continental Railway Journeys,' you'll probably not be surprised to learn that one of my great aspirations is to travel on Egypt's railways.
Michael Portillo
/
Journalist
Continental
Egypt
Railway
Aspirations
Bbc
Journeys
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The path from Hythe leads, for a little while, along the line of the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch railway, whose 15in-gauge steam trains run throughout the year from Hythe to Dungeness.
David Hewson
/
Author
Path
Railway
Romney
Steam
Leads
Line
Little While
Trains
Throughout
Whose
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Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite.
Paul Theroux
/
Film Writer
Angle
Excitement
Railway
Bite
Endlessly
Rattling
Sound Bite
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I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.
Dylan Thomas
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Poet
Development
Enthusiastic
Lectures
Railway
Turkish
Week
Audiences
Equally
Essay
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The Giraffe took the horse's head and led him along on the most level parts of the road towards the railway station, and two or three chaps went along to help get the sick man into the train.
Henry Lawson
/
Writer
Giraffe
Horse
Railway
Sick
Sick Man
Three
Chap
Towards
Head
Led
Parts
Road
Station
Took
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My favourite British line is the West Highland line. It was built across moorland where no one had succeeded in building a road. So everything in that area is there because of the railway line.
Michael Portillo
/
Journalist
Favourite
Railway
Succeeded
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Writing my novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' I came to conclude that great crimes like the Death Railway did not begin with the first beating or murder on that grim line of horror in 1943.
Richard Flanagan
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Novelist
Grim
Railway
Beating
Conclude
Crimes
Narrow
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I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.
Fergus Henderson
/
Chef
Bristol
Railway
Supper
Builds
Chap
Further
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At the zoo, people would gather around the railway to see the snakes being fed, and my brothers would walk around the group, taking from purses or bags or using a razor to cut pockets and take wallets.
Apollo Robbins
/
Bags
Pockets
Railway
Snakes
Fed
Gather
Razor
Zoo
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I think if 'The Narrow Road To The Deep North' is one of the high points of Japanese culture, then the experience of my father, who was a slave laborer on the Death Railway, represents one of its low points.
Richard Flanagan
/
Novelist
Japanese Culture
Railway
Slave
Japanese
Laborer
Low
Narrow
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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.
Sydney Brenner
/
Researcher
Home
Morning
Travel
Evening
Johannesburg
Lunch
Railway
Sandwiches
University
Carrying
Followed
Returning
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Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.
James Buchan
/
Novelist
History
Bears
Bits
Bulls
Crash
Dust
Fall
Financial
Mania
Railway
Speculation
Read
Off
Tulip
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My debut performance was on the railway tracks where I was asked to sing some Hindi songs in front of a mafia gang and around 20,000 more people were present. I sang in fear and danced too and luckily, they liked it.
Kumar Sanu
/
Debut
Gang
Hindi
Railway
Danced
Luckily
Sang
More People
Tracks
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