They seem to think nothing of sitting in a railway carriage opposite a man and chatting gaily with him.
When British engineers were employed to survey the route for a railway between Fez and Mequinez this was reported as indicating an absolute sale of the country, and the people were again stirred up, though not to actual strife.
Since the first train steamed to this ancient city, in 1859, the railway has probably brought as many pilgrims to the mosque as ever visited it from other motives in its greatest days.
At nine o'clock I am at the railwaystation to say good-bye to the Warden, who has been called to Albany on business.
Then come the sounds of many other instruments, and the noise of the train at the railway station, over the wall and across the street.
In their enthusiasm to reach the gathering place of their people, many of the Latter-day Saints set out from Iowa, where railway facilities had their termination, with hand-carts only as a means of conveyance.
Now we traverse the self-same track in a day and a night, reclining on luxurious cushions of ease, covering fifty miles while dining in luxury; and we avert the ennui of the journey by berating the railway company for lack of speed.
She dreaded the long railwayjourney through Austria, and preferred the sea.
Paul followed his guide along the winding path which leads from the railway station to the hotel, smelling with delight the aromatic odor of the pines, and enjoying the coolness of the evening air.
I saw him to-day in the city, at the Railway Board.
All his things were at the club;--or he thought that they were, not being quite certain whether he had not made some attempt to carry them off to the Railway Station.
The letter written at Liverpool, but dated from the Langham Hotel, had been posted at the Euston Square Railway Station at the moment of Fisker's arrival.
So much was made clear at the railway station, but nothing more could be learned there.
But the Railway business, though it comprised all that Montague had in the world, was not the heaviest of his troubles.
Lord Nidderdale had again declared his intention of running, owing to considerable pressure put upon him by certain interested tradesmen, and with this intention had become one of the directors of the Mexican Railway Company.
Mr Adolphus Longestaffe had paid Sir Felix Carbury a thousand pounds, and Sir Felix Carbury's commission had been accepted by Mr Melmotte for the purchase of railway stock to that amount.
He had taken a bedroom at a small inn close to the Eastern Counties Railway Station which he was accustomed to frequent when business brought him up to London, and thither he proposed to himself to return.
There was not one of them then present who had not after some fashion been given to understand that his fortune was to be made, not by the construction of the railway, but by the floating of the railway shares.
This took place on the day after the balloting at Westminster, when the result was not yet known,--and when the shares in the railway were very low indeed.
As she walked quickly back to the railway station she brought herself to love her lover more fondly than she had ever done.
Railway traffic cannot be managed by pure routine like that of the mails.
In practical operation German railway officials have taught the railway world nothing.
In all the history of railway development it has been the private companies that have led the way, the State systems that have brought up the rear.
They counselled some measure of compulsory arbitration, urged that labor unions should become incorporated, so as to be responsible bodies, and suggested the licensing of railway employees.
For five minutes telegraph clicks and cable flashes ceased, and for ten minutes, upon many lines of railway and street railway, every wheel stood still.
Facilitating passenger transportation to and from the Fair remarkable railway achievements were made.
The latter route had the great advantage of affording direct communication with the end of the railway line at Dagupan.
Higgins, president of the Manila and Dagupan Railway Company, who was an engineer of experience, to report on the practicability of constructing a railway to Baguio.
Meade, Thirty-sixth Infantry, United States Volunteers, who has been detailed by the military governor for that purpose, along the general line of survey recently made by Captain Meade for a railway between said towns.
After being absent from Manila for some time, he reported in favour of the Bued River valley route, saying that it was entirely feasible to build a railway along it.
On my way from the railwaystation to the trenches I met a very much excited officer returning from the front.
The Manila Railway Company is extending its line to Baguio by means of a branch leaving the main line at Aringay.
The story told is this: Astley talked of the correspondence to some person in a railway carriage.
French carriages on the railwayare much better than ours, particularly the second class; the country between Boulogne and Paris looks well and thriving.
He told them that they must go to his father, their king, and ask him to send a guard to meet us as soon as possible at their village, with all that was needed for our journey to the court.
They, like Dalfin, would wear neither helm nor byrnie.
Thereat Dalfin bade the man get him a horse at once, and the fisher threw up his hands and said that there was never a horse within ten miles.
Mr. Elliott's carriage met them at the railway station, and a short drive brought Patty to her new home.
It was, most amazingly, a crystal cave, very oddly shaped like a railway station.
I thought Jumbo'd grown as big as a railway station, s'welp me if I didn't.
Up against a railway bank like that down at Zillebeck, by the Railway Dugouts, there's a lovely place.
At the railway station, the battalion was halted, awaiting the making up of their train, the departure of which was delayed by the incoming hospital train from up the line.
Respecting the Railway tariff, it is fair to assume that the cause of dissatisfaction has disappeared, for no complaints are now heard since the tariff was lowered in accordance with the recommendations of the Commission.
That the tariffs of the Netherlands Railway Company for the carriage of coal and other articles were too high, and that it was necessary to expropriate the railway.
He had to wait two hours at this railway junction; and this time he pleasantly expended in eating many dishes at a restaurant, and amusing the lax porters by teaching them a method of economizing energy in shifting trunks.
Witness the articles on Chautauqua, and Railway Junctions, and Tips (entitled A Stubborn Relic of Feudalism) and several others.
Here we have a record of a great disappointment that was occasioned merely by the common habit of despising railway junctions, and presuming them to be inevitably dull.
It is difficult for me to remember a railway junction in which there was nothing to do; but perhaps Pyrgos, in Greece, comes nearest to this description.
This man, who could be happy at a railway junction, could not have found a prouder way of boasting to posterity that he had never "faltered more or less in his great task of happiness.
Space is lacking in the present article for a complete guide to all the railway junctions of Europe; but I should like to commemorate a few, in gratitude for what befell me there.
He was entirely happy for two hours in that railway station.
Todd The Way to Flatland Fabian Franklin The Disfranchisement of Property David McGregor Means Railway Junctions Clayton Hamilton Minor Uses of the Middling Rich F.
On a railway journey I suffer horribly from the thought that one of my fellow-travelers may be prevented from fulfilling some imperative natural necessity.
At the age of 12 she had first experienced sexual excitement in a railway train from the jolting of the carriage.
The one moral she saw in anything was that of her incomparable aspect, which Mr. Dawling, smitten even like the railway porters and the cabmen by the doom-dealing gods, had followed from London to Venice and from Venice back to London again.
On the platform of the railway station he saw Gerald Crich, reading a newspaper, and evidently waiting for the train.
She saw herself at the wicket, at the railway station.
Down the railway ran the trains, short trains of heavily laden trucks, long trains of empty wagons, each one bearing in big white letters the initials: 'C.
He saluted the two girls, and drew up at the crossing to wait for the gate, looking down the railway for the approaching train.
COAL-DUST Going home from school in the afternoon, the Brangwen girls descended the hill between the picturesque cottages of Willey Green till they came to the railway crossing.
They were through a great doorway, and in the open night again--ah, a railway platform!
WOMAN TO WOMAN They came to the town, and left Gerald at the railway station.
The next day, they descended at the tiny railway station of Hohenhausen, at the end of the tiny valley railway.
I want my clothes, and if you won't lend me a car or a trap, I'll walk to the nearest railway station.
Although both of them were provided with a certain amount of railway literature, neither of them made any pretence at reading.
You have been in a railway accident," the doctor told him, "and you were brought here afterwards.
You will find that I am not altogether ignorant of your profession, or of those very interesting geological problems which you spoke of in connection with that marvellous railway scheme.
The girl who had just completed her railway journey entered, followed by her brother.
All the roads to the coast here cross no end of small bridges--much weaker affairs than the railway bridges.
He was certainly injured, and injured in a railway accident.
My nephew brought him here after the railway accident at Wymondham, since when he has been under the care of my own physician.
And all this," he wound up, as he paused before taking his seat in the railway carriage, "all this might even now be avoided if only we could lay our hands upon the message which that man Dunster was bringing from New York!
Men who have been inrailway accidents, and who have a gaping wound very close to their brain, are subject to delusions.
I think that I knew it was coming from the moment that you stepped into my railway carriage.
Is believed to have been in railway accident near Wymondham and to have been taken from inn by young man in motor-car.
The worst public building in the splendid city of Christchurch was the government railway station; the station at Wellington would not make a decent sheep shed.
Tokyo has more open space than other native cities, and street cars, rickshas and crowds of people about the railway station gave ample evidence of having reached a large center.
Hemp, or jute, reeds were lying in pools of water along the railway track to soften, when the fiber would be stripped from the stalk and later made into rope.
Walking on a railway track in Europe is a prison offense.
One of the sub-stations, located a short distance from the railway track, was alive with passengers, but no one seemed to really care when the trains came and went.
A good railwaystation adds to the appearance of this foreign city, but there is little native interest to be observed compared to other typical Japanese centers.
The noise and rattle a group of pullers make in approaching sounds almost like a collision between two railway trains.
The narrow train laboriously continues upward, while passengers direct their gaze down gaping caverns, on the rim of which the railway track sometimes rests.
The Uganda Railway is a paying concern, for dividends of 33 per cent.
The water channel separating Hongkong from the mainland is a mile wide, and opposite the city is Kowloon, where large vessels put in at wharves and from which place the railway starts for Canton.
When drawn to the head of the slipway, the body continues moving on to a wide flat car, the railway track on which the car rests being sunk to a depth level with the top of the slipway.
For a lively business place, and the largest city in the Dominion, the railway station was a disgrace; it was little better than the one at Wellington, but this comparison adds nothing to the Auckland Station.
No attempt has yet been made to rob the wagon while going from the head office of the diamond company to the railway station.
There is one in the railway valley, below Chipsted Church, some 100 feet deep; I have never known it dry.
The only way, however, in which the railway affected the wells, was to cut right through one, parts of which may still be seen in the embankment.
As Canterville Chase is seven miles from Ascot, the nearest railway station, Mr. Otis had telegraphed for a waggonette to meet them, and they started on their drive in high spirits.
Now and then a barge swung out into the turbid stream, and floated away with the tide, and the railway signals changed from green to scarlet as the trains ran shrieking across the bridge.
Duke, laughing, and they galloped on to the railway station.
Then therailway lights went out, one solitary lamp left gleaming like a large ruby on a giant mast, and the roar of the city became fainter.
Every one, perhaps, realizes that what is here said about the balanced relation of the forces which act upon a stationary box, is equally true of the forces which act on a box similarly held in a steadily movingrailway car or boat.
The railway goes on to its terminus at Cartaret, a nicely situated little seaside village close to the cape of the same name.
There is a junction here on the railway for Carentan and St Lo, but the place seems to have gone on quite unaltered by this communication with the large centres of population.
The remains of the castle, where lived during the eleventh century the Turstan Halduc just mentioned, are to be seen on the railway side of the town.
The Black Forest Railway is one of the great triumphs of engineering skill.
The main line of the Baden railwayruns southward towards Freiburg, amid some of the most picturesque mountain scenery of the Black Forest.
