elevated railway

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Priced at £1bn in 1991, this was a Vancouver-style elevated railway threading its way from Tingley through the city centre to St James's Hospital and Seacroft.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2025

Doyle, played by Gene Hackman in an Oscar-winning performance, barely misses making the arrest on a subway train, then hurries to his police car to follow the train as it emerges on an elevated railway.

From Washington Times • Aug. 7, 2023

The new park, to be built adjacent to the westernmost of the three 11th Street bridges, was inspired by projects such as New York’s High Line, an elevated railway line remade as a garden promenade.

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2022

Last year, the artist created a 10ft-diameter globe for New York’s High Line, the public park built on a disused elevated railway track.

From The Guardian • Oct. 14, 2020

But more than a few blocks away, north of the raucous automobile traffic and elevated railway on 86th Street, was a strange unknown territory, off-limits to my wanderings.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan