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heritage railways

heritage railways is the plural of heritage railway.

Meaning of heritage railway

Noun

heritage railway (plural heritage railways)

  1. (UK) A railway operating a line with preserved and restored locomotives, trains and infrastructure, and usually providing train services for visitors; in effect a working open-air museum.
    • The heritage railway [Isle of Wight Steam Railway] argued that passenger numbers on both operators would increase, bringing economic benefit to a deprived area of the town [of Ryde].2019 October 23, Rail, page 18

Questions about heritage railways

What is heritage railways the plural of?
Heritage railways is the plural of heritage railway.

Words near heritage railways in the dictionary

  1. heritage interpretation
  2. heritage interpretations
  3. heritage language
  4. heritage languages
  5. heritage railway
  6. heritage railways
  7. heritage river
  8. heritage rivers
  9. heritage speaker
  10. heritage speakers
  11. heritage tomato

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heritage railways (page history and authors); heritage railway (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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