Tramway
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Tramway may refer to:
- A tram or light-rail network
- An aerial tramway, or
- Historically, a railway, particularly one used for the carriage of minerals.
- In the United Kingdom a tramway is a precise term in law and in regulations for a class of railway that shared a road. The majority of railways operating under this class were tram networks, although some were industrial and at least one example at Weymouth was part of the main railway network and saw full freight and passenger trains traversing the streets of Weymouth down to the quay.