railway system

Questions about railway system

What does railway system mean?

railway system means "line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight".

What is another word for railway system?

Close synonyms include railway, railroad, railroad line, railway line. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is railway system a common word?

railway system is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.