overhead wires
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In those stories, there were no overhead wires to bury or water lines to move.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2025
A LINE: Bus shuttles replace trains in both directions between the Southwest Museum and Fillmore stations due to wind damage to overhead wires.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2025
Battery-powered trains would save rail operators the cost of installing overhead wires on unelectrified tracks, which are found throughout the UK.
From BBC • Nov. 10, 2024
Beyond that, the overhead wires will be replaced in west London.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2024
This practice of running overhead wires has great disadvantages when the wires are used for electric-lighting purposes as well as for ordinary telephone or telegraph purposes.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 by Various
