tramway

noun tram·way \ ˈtram-ˌwā \

|Updated on: 12 Jun 2018

Definition of tramway

1 a : a railway for trams

b British : a streetcar line

2 : an overhead cable for trams

Recent Examples of tramway from the Web

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
The gun battles halted the iconic tramway in Alemão yet again this week, stranding people on their way to work.

— simon romero, New York Times, "Beyond Olympic Glow, a Vicious Drug War Rages in Rio," 11 Aug. 2016
But from the expansive rooftop garden, the only sounds are birds chirping, boats plying the waters below, and the tramway gliding by on the banks of the Seine.

— mary winston nicklin, Condé Nast Traveler, "La Seine Musicale: A New “City of Music” on an Island in Paris," 25 Apr. 2017
The annual licensing inspection report by the tramway safety board did not require the area to close, but deficiencies needed to be fixed in less than four weeks.

— jason blevins, The Denver Post, "Southwestern Colorado ski area closed due to chairlift safety issues," 1 Mar. 2017

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1825

in the meaning defined at sense 1a

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