Sentence examples for tramcar from inspiring English sources

The monument tells the tale of Magdalene Smith and Mary McNaughton who, returning home from church in heavy rain and shielded by an umbrella, walked out in front of a tramcar and were both killed.

You can almost see him trembling as he reads aloud (in German): Two minutes later the tramcar stopped.

Originally it took up to 860 rather squashed passengers and a tramcar on each crossing – at its peak, in 1919, over 5,000,000 passengers used the bridge annually.

From somewhere in the city we heard a tramcar and a three-o'clock factory whistle, and then we knew that the world was still there, and people still went out shopping, and worked in factories, making biscuits and blue bags and plastic raincoats.

I saw a road workman knocked down or hit by a tramcar.

Icing on the cake The Hills Tramcar Tour lasts 80 minutes and departs from Praca do Comercio (6) every 20 minutes from 9.20am to 7pm (€8) and follows a similar route to the famous yellow No 28 tram around the old quarter of Lisbon, but with less risk of pickpockets and the inclusion of an audio guide.

It was 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long and at first used trolley streetcars, or tramcars.

Yet, despite the congestion caused by the colossal expansion in the use of the private automobile and the reduction in the number of tramcars, city transport has once more become efficient.

In 1868 the first tramcars, also drawn by animals, were introduced.

It is a mystery how the people who travel in the tramcars earn a living, and it is a miracle how they house themselves.

They wait patiently in line at the bottom of the hill for the white tramcars that will take them to the summit.