interurban
nounEtymology From inter- + urban.
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Rail transport, Railways, Transport US An electric railway carrying mainly passengers between two or more urban centres.
- interurban car, interurban line, interurban railroad
- On the steam roads, the engine, representing with its tender an enormous weight, is required to generate enough power not only for its own propulsion, but drag after it a train of cars. Several important consequences result from this difference between steam and electric traction. First, on the electric railway single cars may be used, taking their power as required under such headway as may be required to accommodate the traffic, while the steam engine must for the sake of economy be loaded somewhere near its capacity, so that the service is necessarily less frequent than that offered by the interurban.1909, Thomas Conway (Jr.), The Traffic Problems of Interurban Electric Railroads, page 7:
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- Q. Took the interurban at Denison? A. Yes, sir. Q. And went from there to McKinney on the interurban?1916, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court, page 20:
- The act was elective and included the hazardous employments listed (they fill 112 pages of print) and include railroads, mines, interurbans, logging, iron and steel manufacture, packing houses, construction work, etc., etc.1919, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court, page 117:
- ... but debits and credits arising from the operation of such street electric passenger railways, including railways commonly called interurbans, as are at the time of the agreement not under Federal control, shall be excluded.(Can we date this quote?), Southern Pacific Company, Corporation Annual Reports to Shareholders, page 30:
- Returning to Seattle we took the interurban to Everett, 32 miles north, $1.30 for the round trip1927, The Union Pacific Magazine, volume 6, page 13: