non-railway en · ADJ
Etymology
From non- + railway.
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of nonrailway.
alt of nonrailway
Corbett has an interesting insight into the reactions of his colleagues from diverse backgrounds: "The ex-British Rail people responded much better than those from the private sector. In terms of helping, the private sector people headed for the hills, while the railway people, like Chris Leah [the operations director] and Dick Fearn [the Midlands Zone director] moved towards the gunfire. The non-railway people on the whole didn't."
2026 March 4, Christian Wolmar, “Railtrack: what really happened”, in RAIL, number 1056, page 52: