tramroad

noun

1. A road designed for use by trams or wagons.

   “About two hundred and fifty years ago, some genius, as unknown as the inventor of the lathe, laid the first wooden tramroad, to enable a horse to draw forty-two cwt. instead of seventeen.”

   “It is not improbable that, in some locality where tram-roads were a novelty, their name may have been associated in folk-etymology or by pre-scientific etymologers with that of the engineer.”

   “Immediately to the west of Coleorton, an important system of tramroads was built in connection with the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal.”

   “The company arranged for access to a Blackpool terminus […] over a street tramway to be constructed by, and leased for 21 years from, the Corporation. The distance between termini was about eight miles, of which 6 miles 22 ch. was to be tramroad on private right-of-way.”