On the 4th October the Battalion entrained on a light railway, and soon reached Poperinghe, where it remained until darkness and then entrained on a broad gauge train at Poperinghe Station for Ypres.
The American Railway Engineers had constructed a light railway from Epéhy to Tincourt, and they expressed their readiness to convey the Battalion there by rail.
The companies were taken up to the forward area by a light railway, and this was the only occasion on which the Battalion was taken to the forward area in such a manner.
There certainly was an attempt to lull possible suspicions by the designation of the Malmedy-Stavelot link as a "light railway.
It shows that the railroad proper evolved out of the tramroad or 'light railway,' as it would now be called--a type of line which is specially suited to electrical operation.
Applications for 'Light Railway Orders' had to be made to the Light Railway Commission, one of whose members then arranged to hold a local inquiry into the proposal.
Ireland had already had her share (some thought more than her share) of light railway legislation, with its accompanying doles in the shape of easy loans and free gifts, whilst England and Scotland had been left in the cold.
What really constitutes a light railway it is not easy to say.
Although the lines were promoted under Light Railway Acts, and the Government grants were based upon light railway estimates, Parliamentary power was obtained to construct, maintain, and work them as other than light railways.
It was an excellent substitute for a light railway, but it compelled a tall man to walk along the trench with his head on one side.
The dressing station was crowded, and a batch of prisoners, cowed and grateful for their lives, were carrying loaded stretchers along trench-board tracks to a light railway a mile distant.
We come to a light railway, and this under no circumstances must be damaged.
In regard to the second head, needless controversy is engendered by attempting to assume that, because a light railway is right here, therefore a narrow-gauge railway is wrong there, or vice versa.
Under the first head, some confusion has arisen in consequence of the application of the term “light railway” now to lines of the standard gauge only, and again to narrow-gauge lines also.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "light railway" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
