tramway

noun

tram·way | \ˈtram-ˌwā

\

Definition of tramway

1a : a railway for trams

b British : a streetcar line

2 : an overhead cable for trams

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The idea of an aerial tramway has been proposed several times over the years but has never taken off. — Chris Irvine, Fox News, "Warner Bros. proposes solution to Hollywood sign tourist traffic with $100 million aerial tramway," 10 July 2018 Also, there is a tramway to take you up into the mountains for a great view. — Scott Mcmurren, Anchorage Daily News, "Banff, Jasper and the incredible sights you’ll see driving up the Alaska-Canadian Highway," 10 June 2018 Part of which was working with the Austrian-Swiss company Doppelmayr/Garaventa to build the cutting-edge Wings of Tatev tramway, the longest reversible cableway in the world. — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, "How a Record-Breaking Aerial Tramway Helped Save a Centuries-Old Armenian Monastery," 6 July 2018 Navajo Nation member Renae Yellowhorse works with a group called Save the Confluence, which helped shut down the tramway. — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, "How Navajo Activists Defeated the Grand Canyon Escalade," 24 May 2018 The boy clearly remembers a sausage in a bun, eaten while perched in a tramway shelter, watching the trams go past in Düsseldorf. — Frances Leech, Longreads, "Forgetting the Madeleine," 3 May 2018 Historic videos atop the Mount Usu tramway detailed the risk of volcanic apocalypse (and Mount Usu's most recent eruption, in March 2000). — Bonnie Tsui, Redbook, "What It's Like to Travel Through 4 Countries In 3 Months With 2 Kids," 23 May 2017 Earlier this month two were arrested while preparing a report on Alexandria’s historic tramway. — The Economist, "Ahead of a farcical election, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi goes after the press," 8 Mar. 2018 Roosevelt Island has for too long been an outlier in the East River with its rickety aerial tramway and skinny subway platform. — WSJ, "Campus of the Future," 16 Sep. 2017

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