On Oct 12, 2009, at 17:18 , John Francis wrote:
A Tram is a usually a large gondola car hanging from and moved by
wires to which it is fastened either permanently or by grippers to
transport users over any ground level obstacles. It can also be a
railcar that is fashioned to climb a very steep mountain or hill,
some
powered by their own motive power and a counterweight, some by cable
drive powered at the top or bottom of the run.
Sorry, forgot to add that a Tram used to climb steep hills is also
known
as a "Funicular Railway".
The UK, of course, has different definitions.
See, for example <http://www.blackpooltrams.info/>
See you missed my first post first paragraph, which ended: " and found
that diff. areas of the world use diff. terminologies."
Wikipedia mentioned that the Brits and Toronto use the term Tram for
their single unit streetcars.
In most of the world, it's no longer germain, as in 1970 the powers
that be declared most systems other than historical would henceforth
be known as "Light Rail".
Joseph McAllister
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