#railways

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

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

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#devices #engineering #imperfection #iron #machinery

The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads. ↗

— Kelly Miller

#construction #corps #engineer #including #light

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

As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#because #cannot #developed #ignorant #know

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