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Spell Bee Word: Railway


What does railway mean?

Word: Railway

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Railway means a track with two steel rails for trains, or the whole system of trains, stations and staff.

How do you spell railway?

Syllables: rail - way

Tricky part: Each half keeps its own spelling, rail and then way. Children who write by sound often get the vowel letters of one half wrong.

Watch out for: relway, rilway, railwey

Memory tip: Railway ends in y, just as day and play do: no e creeps in near the end.

Railway in a sentence

Example 1: Our train was late because of repair work on the railway near Nagpur.

Example 2: My uncle works for Indian Railways in Chennai.

Example 3: Never cross the railway line when the gates are down.

Fun Fact

India's first passenger train ran between Bori Bunder in Bombay and Thane on 16 April 1853.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the correctly spelt compound word:

a) railway
b) dorebell
c) fotpath
d) sunflowr

Show answer

a) railway. Footpath has oo, sunflower ends in flower, and doorbell begins with door.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Our train stopped at a small railway station near the tea gardans.

a) station
b) gardans
c) railway
d) train

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b) gardans. Garden ends in -en, so gardens keeps the e.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) ticket
b) railway
c) engine
d) pasenger

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d) pasenger. Passenger keeps the double s of pass.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

yawlira

a) raiwlay
b) lairway
c) wailray
d) railway

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d) railway. Lairway, raiwlay and wailray keep ai and ay but put the r, l and w in the wrong order.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do you find at a railway station?

a) a platform
b) a toll booth
c) a runway
d) a jetty

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a) a platform

2. A railway crossing is a place where ____.

a) tickets are checked
b) trains are mended
c) a road crosses the tracks
d) two railway lines meet

Show answer

c) a road crosses the tracks

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