Sentence examples for cable tramway from inspiring English sources

Materials were hauled along the cable tramway in tubs by a steam powered winch.

Until the demise of the system in the 1950s, this area was also at the heart of the Dunedin cable tramway system, with the longer lines running up the slopes of City Rise via High, Rattray, or Stuart Streets.

The first railway in Canada was constructed by British military engineers in the 1820s at the Citadel at Québec city; it used a similar cable-operated tramway to ascend the heights of Cape Diamond.

A cable-operated tramway system may be the best answer to improving the airport's traffic circulation, said County Supervisor Ron Roberts.

For the scene in which Jaws bites into the steel tramway cable with his teeth, the cable was actually made of liquorice, although Richard Kiel was still required to use his steel dentures.

The magnetic flux leakage (MFL) method is widely used for the assessment of the condition of off-shore cables, gas pipes and aerial tramway cables.

7.58pm BST Waiting for a tram Marcel and the boys are waiting for Thor's anger to abate, and for the tramway cable car to reopen - they surely can't pass up the chance to see the Continental Divide.

The magnetic flux leakage (MFL) method has been known for many years and is used for inspection work in different fields, such as the non-destructive evaluation (NDE) of pipelines, arial tramways or stay cable bridges.

The Ekeberg Line would remain a tramway.

The Roosevelt Island Tramway, one of two commuter cable car systems in North America, whisks commuters between Roosevelt Island and Manhattan in less than five minutes, and has been serving the island since 1978.

Call it a cable car, call it a gondola, call it a ropeway, aerial tramway, or teleférico -- we just call it awesome.