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Definition of Cable railway
1. Noun. A railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars.
Terms within: Cable Car, Car
Generic synonyms: Railroad, Railroad Line, Railway, Railway Line, Railway System
Derivative terms: Funicular
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cable Railway
Literary usage of Cable railway
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1891)
"KANSAS CITY cable railway Co. [100 MISSOURI, 19<t) RUNNING TRAINS AT ...
A cable-railway company in running its trains through the streets of • city at a ..."
2. Southern France Including Corsica: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1907)
"Guides, scarcely required for the ordinary excursions, with the details given
below ; 3-10 fr. for half-a-day, 5-12 fr. per day. Electric cable railway ..."
3. A Treatise Upon Cable Or Rope Traction, as Applied to the Working of Street by J. Bucknall Smith (1887)
"A metropolitan underground cable railway has been successfully working for the
past ten years in Constantinople, from Galata to Pera The tunnel is built of ..."
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