1845 9 Aug. 5/2 The navigators of the present railway age.
1952 G. H. Dury xiii. 150 A long period of slow urban growth in which the street plan evolved, as it were, by natural selection, and a later recrudescence in the railway age.
2006 (Nexis) 6 Nov. a6 The railway age is gone, so much of the industrial land along the tracks at the south end of Caswell Hill is no longer right for the area.