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Definition of Railway junction
1. Noun. A junction where two or more railway lines meet or cross.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Railway Junction
Literary usage of Railway junction
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... 13 miles to the southeast of Olmütz. It is an important railway junction and
carries on a considerable trade. The chief industries are sugar-boiling ..."
2. Great Britain: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1906)
"Crewe is also an important railway- junction, 600 trains passing through it ...
Rooms), a town with 30456 inhab., ie a busy railway junction and a chief ..."
3. The Electrical Transmission of Energy by Arthur Vaughan Abbott (1907)
"... the sewer by means of the pipe P. The structure is completed by the addition
of the street cover. PLUG HARD RUBBE Fig. 182. Street railway junction-Box. ..."
4. Civil Engineering as Applied in Construction by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1902)
"161, where a single line of railway is represented branching off from another
single line. The switches are two inner rails SINGLE-LINE railway junction. ..."
5. Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car by Francis Miltoun (1909)
"Assisi is a much visited shrine, but Foligno is remembered by most of those who
have travelled that way only as a grimy railway junction. ..."
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