#railway

Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#bush #corporations #debt #destruction #george

I'm proud to be a railway modeler. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#proud #railway

The murder of my husband by the railways has altered the way I think about everything. I had always thought that the majority of people were decent and honourable. In the wake of the crash, what made me angry more than anything else was the realisation that this was not true. I still find it very hard to come to terms with. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#altered #always #angry #anything #come

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors. ↗

— John Betjeman

#benefactors #front #gardens #houses #interesting

If was, increased by a lack of railways in Russia - for bringing up supplies to our advancing troops. ↗

— Gerd von Rundstedt

#bringing #increased #lack #our #railways

Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929. ↗

— James Buchan

#bits #bulls #crash #dust #dutch

Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine. ↗

— James J. Hill

#great #had #lived #men #mine

When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. ↗

— Gordon Sinclair

#breaking #down #france #germany #india

If God had intended us to fly he would have given us railways. ↗

— Michael Flanders

#given #god #had #intended #railways

I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway. ↗