TRAM


Meaning of TRAM in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

electric

However the route had the unique distinction in Blackpool of operation by horse, gas and electric trams !

Travellers very often notice that electric light and trams are brought into streets which as yet have no houses.

Blackpool was the first town to have electric trams , in 1885.

Horse-drawn buses and electric trams were only partly full, most people being at their places of work by now.

It asked for powers to use animal or electric traction and trams or motor buses.

In 1864 a horse-drawn tram service started, followed in 1895 by an electric tram system.

new

What it really means is that the new trams are a hybrid between street car and lightweight suburban train.

■ NOUN

depot

On the right is the old St. Annes tram depot , now a bus garage.

route

This made route 30, now over 14 miles in length, the longest tram route in London.

This did affect the Croydon area indirectly, by the withdrawal of tram route 12.

track

The old bridge was then demolished and the other new half erected in its place, with a second tram track .

They ran along the tram track for a brief while before rejoining the stream of Saturday traffic.

■ VERB

take

We take a tram to the Pier Head.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

bus/tram etc depot

His interest was in opening the nightclub next to the theater, in the abandoned Trailways bus depot .

Many urban homeless were seeking refuge in subway stations and bus depots .

Projects under negotiation include the Manggarai Integrated Terminal, a giant inter-city bus depot south of Jakarta.

The supermarket scheme will force Caldaire to move the United bus depot to another site.

There is a bus depot at the rear of the terminal.

Transport Organise trouble-free transport to and from the railway station, airport, or bus depot .

Twenty-eight Brethren worshiped there, in a large bare rented room on the second floor of the bus depot .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a tram tour of Universal Studios

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Artists' impressions show a tram that has more in common with the flat-faced, characterless light trains of the toy-like Docklands Light Railway.

That special trams were run to enable people to view a solar eclipse?

The tram stopped outside the Kings.

The tram was coming towards her from Boar Lane.

The 1925 Illuminations attracted an additional million passengers to the Promenade trams, bringing an extra revenue of £7,360.

The cities with their canals and punctual trams are among the most pleasant and orderly in the world.

The Gondola was the most graceful of illuminated trams, and was built in 1925 on the base of an old tram.

The Hague is an immaculate city, where you're more likely to see bicycles and trams than cars.

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