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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return. -- E. M. Forster
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay. -- Dylan Thomas
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown -- E. M. Forster
Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station. -- Thomas Beecham
Railway stations can become growth points for the nearby villages. -- Narendra Modi
I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway. -- George Stephenson
Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine. -- James J. Hill
I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. -- Natalie Dormer
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film -- Dinah
My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers in 1943. Between 100,000 and 200,000 died. -- Richard Flanagan
I'm proud to be a railway modeler. It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to be on the cover of a music magazine. -- Rod Stewart
I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though. -- Mikhail Kalashnikov
The great Pacific Railway is commenced... Immigration will soon pour into these valleys. Ten millions of emigrants will settle in this golden land in twenty years... This is the grandest enterprise under God! -- George Francis Train
Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track. -- Dinah Sheridan
Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress. -- Charles Dickens
Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ryTay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time. -- William Topaz McGonagall
Writing my novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' I came to conclude that great crimes like the Death Railway did not begin with the first beating or murder on that grim line of horror in 1943. -- Richard Flanagan
I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way. -- Sydney Brenner
I think if 'The Narrow Road To The Deep North' is one of the high points of Japanese culture, then the experience of my father, who was a slave laborer on the Death Railway, represents one of its low points. -- Richard Flanagan
Back in 1960 at Christmas time, I did work loading and unloading boxcars for Railway Express. That was a kind of weight training that helped me. I weighed about 160 when I started. I began to gain weight and kept right on gaining until I reached 195 pounds. -- Pete Rose
In 1910, eighty-two-year-old Leo Tolstoy flees from his wife and dies in a railway station of exposure. -- Jon Winokur
I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station! -- Charlotte Lamb
People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors. -- John Betjeman
Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry. -- John Hegley
The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film. -- Dinah Sheridan
I went to a restaurant the other day called 'Taste of the Raj.' The waiter hit me with a stick and got me to build a complicated railway system. -- Harry Hill
In England, they say that Manchester is the city of rain. It's main attraction is considered to the timetable at the railway station, where trains leave for other, less rainy cities. -- Nemanja Vidic
My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways. -- Lalu Prasad Yadav
Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me. -- George Bernard Shaw
First Europe, and then the globe, will be linked by flight, and nations so knit together that they will grow to be next-door neighbors. . . . What railways have done for nations, airways will do for the world. -- Claude Grahame-White
I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me. -- Jeanette Winterson
It is often said that the Japanese are extremely clean at home, or inside any house or office, but dirty and untidy outside. 'Go and look at a railway station,' I was told, 'and you'll be horrified.' I went and was horrified; horrified by the cleanliness of the place. -- George Mikes
I can't quite define my aversion to asking questions of strangers. From snatches of family battles which I have heard drifting up from railway stations and street corners, I gather that there are a great many men who share my dislike for it, as well as an equal number of women who ... believe it to be the solution to most of this world's problems. -- Robert Benchley
I'm proud to be a railway modeler. -- Rod Stewart
My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant. -- Hilary Mantel
I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails. -- Dan Aykroyd
The Ethiopian government's use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was, in practice, a hazardous regards transport of arms intended for the Ethiopian forces. -- Haile Selassie
Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite. -- Paul Theroux
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
I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes. -- Nina Bawden
The Giraffe took the horse's head and led him along on the most level parts of the road towards the railway station, and two or three chaps went along to help get the sick man into the train. -- Henry Lawson
So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending. -- Robert Fripp
I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets. -- George McGovern
I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap. -- Fergus Henderson
Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power in the hands of the good man, it also offers an equal advantage to the evil disposed. -- Richard Jefferies
I was born in Faridabad but brought up in Delhi and Mumbai. My father had been living hand-to-mouth and literally slept on railway platforms when he came to Mumbai for the first time to become a film singer. My parents were both singers; they sang together and fell in love due to their singing. -- Sonu Nigam
I just like being on my own on trains, traveling. I spent all my pocket money travelling the London Underground and Southern Railway, what used to be the Western region, and in Europe as much as I could afford it. My parents used to think I was going places, but I wasn't, I was just travelling the trains. -- Tony Judt
As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible to sit in a crowded railway carriage laboriously spelling out quite long words in full, and using an enormous amount of punctuation, without anyone being aware of how outrageously subversive I am being. -- Lynne Truss
She had more curves than a scenic railway -- P. G. Wodehouse
I want to see a publicly-owned railway, publicly accountable. -- Tony Blair
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains. -- Bertolt Brecht
Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise. -- W.S. Gilbert
And if you ever need self-validation, Just meet me in the alley by the railway station -- Steven Morrissey
... And if Europe gives Arabia a railway, Arabia gives Europe an idea - which I think balances the account. -- Ameen Rihani
Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations. -- Cyril Connolly
An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him. -- Ambrose Bierce
I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk. -- D. H. Lawrence
We have got into Indian railways and are trying to get into the railway locomotive business in Europe and the United States. -- Baba Kalyani
Don't be too optimistic while you are tied to a railway when the train is coming; it won't be helpful for the solution! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
You can go and see the Katihar railway station. This is the most beautiful station in Bihar, even better than the Patna junction. -- Tariq Anwar
I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the cafÃ©, the canal - I figure out the geography of the film. -- Claire Denis
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I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that; it's not some kind of straight railway. -- Richard Flanagan
In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government. -- John Moody
Homeward Bound.' I find myself listening to that tune a lot when I'm traveling. Sitting in a railway station, wanting to go home, carrying all your stuff with you. -- Steven Hall
In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government -- John Moody
Street-casting - people like Katie Jarvis in 'Fish Tank,' spotted having a row with her boyfriend on a railway platform - has helped make actors raise their game. They have to. -- Joe Dempsie
libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands -- Umberto Eco
The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than that for construction in which there is comparatively little doing. -- John B. Jervis
One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night. -- E. Nesbit
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity! -- Christian Nestell Bovee
We're building the infrastructure we need, whether it be the Melbourne Rail Link, the airport rail link which Melburnians have so wanted for over 40 years, upgrading the Pakenham-Cranbourne railway line, or building the East-West Link. -- Denis Napthine

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