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Sus-pen′sion-rail′way.

A railway in which the carriage is suspended from an elevated track, one carriage on each side of a single track, so as to balance; or suspended between two tracks.

Patents representing each of these forms were taken out in England from 1821 to 1825. See Ele-Vated Railway; wire-way.

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