tramways in English

noun
1
a set of rails that forms the route for a streetcar.
But then again, I know that at Weymouth (and half a hundred other places for all I know) there is a tramway which took heavy rail vehicles, i.e. trains.
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1. Hoists, Aerial Tramways and Derricks

2. Funiculars, funicular railways, aerial tramways and aerial conveyors

3. Apparatus for locomotion by land, in water or on water, namely cable cars, rack railways, aerial conveyors, lifts, tramways, suspension railways, passenger transport railways, service tramways

4. 7 He stoutly resisted these demands and campaigned for the retention of the tramways.

5. The first organised bus system in Madras city was operated by Madras Tramways Corporation between 1925 and 1928.

6. This met the power requirements of Bombay city and its industries , tramways and suburban railways .

7. Actually, we were climbing a mountain the easy way —riding one of the longest aerial tramways in the world.

8. 10 There were also some doubts about the link up with other tramways in Beckenham and Lewisham.

9. The necessary protection distances from overhead lines to the ropes of an aerial tramway are subject to regulations concerning the construction of aerial tramways and overhead lines.

10. The main types of cableway installations are funiculars, gondolas, chairlifts, aerial tramways, funitels, drag lifts and combined installations consisting of several cableway types.

11. Outstanding summits with aerial tramways and panoramic restaurants are the Weisshorn and the Parpaner Rothorn which also marks the highest point of the ski area.

12. The first Underground line was opened on 1 December 1913 and was built by the Anglo-Argentine Tramways Company (AATC), which had been given permission to build in 1909.

13. In case you feel nervous about taking a ride in an aerial tramway, a brochure states: “Tramways like this Skytram, historically and statistically, are the safest means of travel between two points.”

14. Railway or tramway track fixtures and fittings; mechanical (including electromechanical) signalling, safety or traffic control equipment for railways, tramways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations or airfields; parts of the foregoing

15. With 30 state-of-the-art aerial tramways and ski lifts and 110 km of piste of varying degrees of difficulty, the Nassfeld-Hermagor ski region in south-western Carinthia is one of the largest and most attractive “guaranteed-snow” resorts in Austria.

16. The main types of cableway installations covered by Directive 2000/9/EC are funiculars, gondolas, detachable chair lifts, fixed-grip chair lifts, aerial tramways, funitels, combined installations (made of several cableway types, such as those of gondolas and chairlifts) and drag lifts.

17. But on 28 December of that year the Municipality of the City of Buenos Aires gave a concession to the Anglo-Argentine Tramways Company (AATC), which operated 80% of the tram system at the time - making it perhaps the largest in the world- to build an underground passenger rail service.

18. Railway or tramway track fixtures and fittings (excluding sleepers of wood, concrete or steel, sections of track and other track fixtures not yet assembled and railway or tramway track construction material); mechanical, including electromechanical, signalling, safety or traffic control equipment for railways, tramways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations or airfields; parts of the foregoing

19. Railway or tramway track fixtures and fittings (excl. sleepers of wood, concrete or steel, sections of track and other track fixtures not yet assembled and railway or tramway track construction material); mechanical, incl. electromechanical, signalling, safety or traffic control equipment for railways, tramways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations or airfields; parts of the foregoing