rail line

Example Sentences

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He noted that Kuwait long talked about building a rail line to bypass the Gulf, but never did.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

Under the initial plans, first confirmed in 2012, the rail line would have run from London to Birmingham, and then on two separate lines to Leeds and Manchester.

From BBC • May 17, 2026

The Southeast Gateway Line, a new 14.5-mile light rail line connecting the A line to Artesia that will serve largely working-class Latino communities across southeast L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

Work has started to dig the tunnel that will take the HS2 rail line from west London to Euston in the capital's centre.

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2026

In the boxcar, Shin befriended a young man of about twenty who said he was headed home to Gilju, a city of sixty-five thousand people on the main rail line to Chongjin.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden