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HSK
underground railway; subway / subway train
HSK 2
railroad / railway / CL: 條|条
HSK 3
(railway) train
HSK 4
to open (a new road or railway line); to set up (a hotline); to launch (a service); to subscribe to (a members-only service)
HSK 6
platform (at a railway station) / (Tw) (of an influential person) to publicly lend one's support (e.g. for an election candidate) / (Tw) website
HSK 6
along the line (e.g. railway) / the region near the line
HSK 7-9
stretch of road / section of a highway or railway
HSK 7-9
Longhua, the name of numerous streets, railway stations, temples and city districts etc, notably Longhua Temple 龍華寺|龙华寺 in Shanghai and Longhua District 龍華區|龙华区 of Shenzhen, Guangdong
railway line / rail track
car door / door of bus, railway carriage etc
the whole front (in a war) / the whole length (of a road or railway line)
Guangdong and Kowloon railway
national humiliation, refers to Japanese incursions into China in the 1930s and 40s, and more especially to Mukden railway incident of 18th September 1931 九一八事變|九一八事变 and subsequent Japanese annexation of Manchuria
rapid transit system / urban railway
railway platform
to access / to transfer passengers between two railway lines
iron wire / CL: / subway enthusiast (abbr. for 地鐵粉絲|地铁粉丝) / railway enthusiast (abbr. for 鐵路粉絲|铁路粉丝)
to lay railway track
(civil engineering) cutting (for a railway or highway)
open wagon / (railway) flatcar
(road or railway) embankment
to lie across the railway tracks (to commit suicide or to prevent trains from getting through)
Chelyabinsk town on the eastern flanks of Ural, on trans-Siberian railway
Guangdong and Kowloon (e.g. railway)
(railway) guard rail
Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway, completed in 2010 / abbr. for 京滬高速鐵路|京沪高速铁路
Never forget national humiliation, refers to Mukden railway incident of 18th September 1931 九一八事變|九一八事变 and subsequent Japanese annexation of Manchuria
CRH-series high-speed trains operated by China Railway
the Mukden or Manchurian Railway Incident of 18th September 1931 used by the Japanese as a pretext to annex Manchuria / also known as Liutiaogou incident 柳條溝事變|柳条沟事变
(railway) carriage
(Hong Kong) MTR (Mass Transit Railway)
green train (slow, noisy, unairconditioned train with forest green livery and yellow trim that ran on the Chinese railway system from the 1950s, phased out in the early 21st century)
(railway) ballast
Baoji-Chengdu Railway
Lanzhou-Xinjiang railway
JingJiu (Beijing-Kowloon) railway
the Mukden or Manchurian Railway Incident of 18th September 1931 used by the Japanese as a pretext to annex Manchuria / also known as 9-18 incident 九一八事變|九一八事变
(physics) magnetic reconnection / (railways) double heading (using two locomotives at the front of a train)
Jiangsu-Gansu railway
Qinghai-Tibet railway
Beijing-Harbin railway
Jing-Guang (Beijing-Guangzhou) Railway
intrusion; perimeter breach / (esp.) (of a person or a foreign object) to breach the perimeter surrounding railway tracks
Canadian Pacific Railway
(coll.) Taipei Railway Station (abbr. for 台北車站|台北车站) (Tw)
the Save the Nation Anti-Japanese Protest Movement stemming from the Manchurian railway incident of 18th July 1931 九一八事變|九一八事变
(railway) platform screen doors / platform-edge doors
Shanghai-Nanjing Railway, a.k.a. Huning Railway
Canton-Hankou Railway, linking Guangzhou and Wuchang, incorporated since 1957 into the Jing-Guang Railway 京廣鐵路|京广铁路
Network Rail (UK railway organization)
Saint Pancras (London railway station)
railway line
Ministry of Railways (MOR), disbanded in 2013 with its regulatory functions taken over by the Ministry of Transport 交通運輸部|交通运输部
to put a new bus or railway station into operation
Jiangsu-Gansu railway / abbr. for 隴海鐵路|陇海铁路
Qinghai-Tibet Railway
fishplate (in railway engineering)


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