The following railroads have been known as Western Railroad or Western Railway:
- Western Railroad (Texas) of New Braunfels
- Western Railroad of Alabama
- Western Railway of Alabama
- Western Railway of Arizona
- Western Railway of Florida
- Western Railroad (Massachusetts), 1833-1867, predecessor of the Boston and Albany Railroad
- Western Railroad of Minnesota
- Western Railroad (North Carolina), 1852-1879, predecessor of the Southern Railway
- Rutland Railway
- Western Railway Zone (India)
- West railway of Austria
- Western Railways and Light Company (a holding company for street railways in the U.S. Midwest)
Famous quotes containing the words western and/or railroad:
“It is said that some Western steamers can run on a heavy dew, whence we can imagine what a canoe may do.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)