tram
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Children and young people who live in Sheffield will get free bus and tram travel across South Yorkshire after a pilot scheme was voted through by councillors.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
"This period has further underlined the critical importance and popularity of our tram network, not just to the north of the city but to the whole of Edinburgh," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
When Gaudí died in 1926, at age 73, in a tram accident, the building was less than a quarter complete.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
From my perch I see thousands of revelers pour from the tram, cars that magically found a parking spot, bikes, and buses.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
The conductor promptly stopped the tram and hailed a policeman, who arrested us, took us down to the station, and charged us.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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The valves of these turbines are all set during the shop test and the rods trammed with an 8-inch tram.
From Steam Turbines A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers by Hubert E. (Hubert Edwin) Collins
I trammed over to the Vatican to see the Sistine Chapel this time and the Stanze and Loggie of Raphael.
From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Mary Alsop King Waddington
We had tea in the town and trammed back.
From Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by Anonymous
Z. and I half walked and half trammed into Rouen this morning.
From Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by Anonymous
"You're not going to see it tramming through because there's no hardness in the wickets – other than frost," said the Nottinghamshire director of cricket Mick Newell.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2013
By shortening this distance of tramming and by consolidation of the material from all levels at the surface, where mechanical haulage can be installed, a second shaft is often justified.
From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Herbert Hoover
The tramming of ore by hand through such a distance would cost about double the amount to hoist it through a shaft and transport it mechanically to the dressing plant at surface.
From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Herbert Hoover
Then, at last, Dorine realized that she was not fit to be seen, after trotting and tramming the whole afternoon in the rain.
From Small Souls by Louis Couperus
Finally the tramming once more,—and the light approached.
From The Cross-Cut by Courtney Ryley Cooper
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