noun

• 1British A track made of steel rails along which trains run; a railroad.

  ‘services were disrupted after an eight-year-old boy was spotted trespassing on the railway’

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  • ‘a railway line’

  1. 1.1A set of tracks for other vehicles.

• 2British A network of tracks with the trains, organization, and personnel required for its working.

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  • ‘the carriage of freight on the railways’