Other forms: railways
A railway is the metal track a train runs on — and the company that runs the trains along it. Britain says railway and America says railroad.
The word covers the whole system, so a railway station, a railway line and the railways as an industry all use it. Britain's railway network was the first in the world and its Victorian engineering is still carrying traffic. The vocabulary is deep: sleepers, ballast, points, signals and rolling stock all belong to it, and every one of those words means something different off the railway.
1nounrailwayA track of rails for trains, or the system and company operating them.
“The railway runs along the far side of the valley.”
Also accepted in games: railroad
From rail + way.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA