Railway Infrastructure Quotes

If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

We shall yet place an iron belt from the Atlantic to the Pacific, a railroad from Halifax to Nootka Sound …

The construction of the Intercontinental Railway is essential to the Consolidation of the Union of British North America.

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.

British-built railways in India helped the British to make money and maintain order and, as a by-product, served to unite the country, ripe for independence.

I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.

You have to begin to put the infrastructure in place to put in high-speed trains...It should be a national priority. If the French can do it, why cant we?

Seaboard Air Line, which was thought by numerous innocents to provide a foothold in aviation, was another favorite, although, in fact, it was a railroad.

My favourite British line is the West Highland line. It was built across moorland where no one had succeeded in building a road. So everything in that area is there because of the railway line.

India's infrastructure deficit in terms of roads, railways, power, and ports needs to be addressed on a fast-track basis.

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.

Trains had the greatest bass sound in the world.

Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution.

My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.

In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.

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

I could go back to the railroad. I liked that job.

The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.

Like Maharashtra, the people of Gujarat also do not want a bullet train.

We anticipate countries increasing their spending on infrastructure like railways, airports, power plants and ports. Our heavy forging plant has the capacity to cater to each of these segments.

Persons who clamor for governmental control of American railways should visit Germany, and above all Russia, to see how such control results. In Germany its defects are evident enough; people are made to travel in carriages which our main lines would not think of using, and with a lack of conveniences which with us would provoke a revolt; but the most amazing thing about this administration in Russia is to see how, after all this vast expenditure, the whole atmosphere of the country seems to paralyze energy.

The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.

We are expanding and improving the infrastructure of our relations. You must have heard about China's plans to participate in building a high-speed railway line between Moscow and Kazan in the Volga region, in central Russia. And then we plan to extend it to Kazakhstan and on to China.

The railroads needed standardized time; as a result, the technology of train travel shaped the way everyone gets up, eats, goes to sleep, calculates age, and, perhaps of no small importance, imagine the world as a whole, ticking reliably, with reliable deviations, according to the beat of one central clock in a physical location.

You can go and see the Katihar railway station. This is the most beautiful station in Bihar, even better than the Patna junction.