telpher

plural telphers

1. An electric-run cable car used for transportation, along overhead wires.
2. A system of transportation using telphers.

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   In 1898, the ever-innovative Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway installed an overhead delivery system known as a 'telpher'. […] But the telpher at Manchester Victoria wasn't part of a crane. It was part of an extraordinary dual-railed overhead line, a little like a suspended monorail, with individually manned units that trundled high above the heads of passengers and staff, carrying goods from the Parcels Office to each platform.

   2020 December 30, Tim Dunn, “The railway's mechanical marvels”, in Rail, page 55

present singular third person telphers · participle present telphering · participle past telphered · past telphered

1. transitiveTo transport with a telpher.