street railway

Definitions

A tram line; public transportation operating on rails laid in public streets.

Examples

“"In the Year-Book of Facts, 1861, pp. 75-80, we described Train's new Street Railway."”

“1898, Mason Delano Pratt, Charles Ames Alden, Street-railway Roadbed, Street Railway Publishing Company, Page 67, "Since street-railway tracks were laid along the lines of other vehicular traffic."”

“1859, Alexander Easton, A Practical Treatise on Street Or Horse-power Railways, Street Railway Publishing Company, Page 63, "In the prosecution of no new work⟳ is activity, dispatch, and system in the distribution of material more necessary than in that of a street railway, where the obstruction to travel⟳, the temporary inconvenience to residents on the line of the torn-up street, and consequent danger of infringing…"”

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