INTERURBAN

Interurban

The interurban was a type of electric railway, particularly prevalent in the United States and Canada, in the period 1900 to 1925, specializing primarily in the conveyance of passengers between cities. They also allowed fast and easy access to those cities to people who lived in the suburban or rural areas beyond. When the interurban first was built into a town, it often was met with a celebration and even subsidies. They were a hybrid between a city streetcar and a railroad train and are also known as radial railways. Interurban is a term that referred to both the interurban company and to the passenger cars that ran on the rails.

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interurban

Noun

  1. A railway connecting two or more urban centres.

Adjective

  1. Of, pertaining to, involving or joining two or more urban centres


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