railway journeys
Rides on tracks
Railway journeys are trips taken by train.
The phrase carries a slightly nostalgic or literary quality, evoking an era when train travel was the primary mode of long-distance transportation: She loved railway journeys through the countryside.
In contemporary usage, *train trip* or *train ride* is more common in American English, while *railway journey* remains natural in British English.
- express trainsRail lines skipping stations
- sleeper trainsTrains with beds
- reading lampSmall directional light for books
- dining carsTrain carriages serving meals
- first classHighest quality or rank
commuter trains · missed connections · stations · timetables · tunnels · bridges · border crossings · locomotives · carriages · luggage racks · reserved seating · intercity trains · ticket inspections · steam engines · luxury trains · metro systems · depots · ticketing systems
- train arttrain stations, steam locomotives
- trainstrains, train, locomotive, locomotives, steam locomotive
- AnatoliaAnatolia, Asia Minor, Ankara, Cappadocia, Istanbul
- German tourismBavaria, Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Dresden
- Old ChinaBeijing, Peking, Shanghai, Forbidden City, Great Wall
railway journeysflights
Scheduled air travel segments
air travel · flying · aviation · sea voyages · road trips
railway journeysstaying put
Remaining in place
staying home · sedentary life · immobility · rootedness · sedentariness
railway, railways, rail, rails, railed, railing, railings, ways, wayward