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Definition of Cable tramway
1. Noun. A conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cable Tramway
Literary usage of Cable tramway
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Palmer's Index to "The Times" NewspaperTimes (London, England) - (1884)
"... who Accidents (continued). was thrown from his Bicycle under a Timber : Waggon,
at Waltham Abbey, and Killed, 23 (Si - — to the Highgate cable tramway, ..."
2. A Treatise Upon Cable Or Rope Traction, as Applied to the Working of Street by J. Bucknall Smith (1887)
"For example, a small cable tramway was built about five years ago in the latter
... About eighteen months ago another somewhat similar cable tramway was ..."
3. Switzerland and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol: Handbook by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1905)
"49), with restaurant, fine view, and shady promenades (cable-tramway from ...
where we join the Rigi Quarter cable tramway to the Germania-Str. (in 31/г ..."
4. The Electrical Engineer (1893)
"He contended that the Corporation's Act of 1891 gave them absolute right to lay
down a cable tramway. Mr. Meysey Thompson said the right was subject to the ..."
5. Transactions by England Society of Engineers (London (1886)
"It must be interesting to know that every cable tramway constructed and worked
up to the present time has paid a dividend after the first year's working. ..."
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