railway timetable
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrailwayandtimetable
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railway
noun[C]
uk/ˈreɪl.weɪ/us/ˈreɪl.weɪ/
the metal tracks on which ...
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timetable
noun[C]
uk/ˈtaɪmˌteɪ.bəl/us/ˈtaɪmˌteɪ.bəl/
a detailed plan showing when events or activities will ...
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(Definition ofrailwayandtimetablefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Attacks on trains, for example, were planned with reference to therailwaytimetableand published updates on station billboards.
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It has all the clarity of arailwaytimetable.
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There was a time when one looked forward to each newrailwaytimetableto see how many minutes had been cut from one's regular journey.
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Secondly, and more importantly, the development of arailwaytimetableis a complex and long-term process.
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That is no more obscene than a telephone directory or arailwaytimetable.
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It was similar to arailwaytimetablefor a ghost train that never ran.
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It seems that what the railways provide could often be improved by a bus service which would be linked in with therailwaytimetable.
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The halt was not shown in the publicrailwaytimetableand local passenger services would only call by special arrangement.
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To take one example, suppose it felt that the interests of the area demanded a really drastic revision of the railway timetables in that area.
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As he rightly said, it was a matter of railway timetables.
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None of those places appears today in the railway timetables.
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It is established that the term "literary work" includes such mundane items as street directories and railway timetables.
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These have included calendars, directories, football coupons, mathematical tables and railway timetables, and many other equally mundane items.
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The railway timetables were such that there was an inevitability about the need to go to war at that time.
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We have to provide a regular and frequent service and to see that railway timetables are as easily accessible as bus timetables.
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Values are not altogether determined by almanacks, clocks, or railway timetables.
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The names certainly do not appear on current railway timetables.
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How do you measure speed—by published railway timetables?
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It was based wholly on railway timetables.
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A long while ago we left behind the world in which railway timetables were settled by train drivers; now the public have a major influence in their determination.
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