Tramrail

Quick meaning: Tramrail is a noun meaning An overhead rail forming a track on which a trolley runs to convey a load, as in a shop.

Meaning

An overhead rail forming a track on which a trolley runs to convey a load, as in a shop.

More Meanings

1. A street railway laid in the streets of a town or city, or an interurban railway for local traffic, on which cable cars, or trolley cars, etc., are used, in distinction from an extended railway line for trains.
2. A grooved rail (one of at least two) laid in a street for trams to run on. Ordinary rails are used on off-street (reserved track) sections of tramways.

Example Sentences

The line from Nyon to La Cure (17½ miles) was opened in 1916, and is on independent track throughout, leaving the road immediately after passing under the Swiss Federal line from Lausanne to Geneva, where grooved tramrails with tie-bars give place to steel-sleepered track.

Word Forms

• tramrails
• tram rail

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tramway, tramline, trolley, tramroad, rail track, tram-train.

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