Crossword-Solution: TRAMWAY 7 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

The solitude seems perfect; the patient astronomer, flat on his back under the Observatory dome and spying heaven’s secrets, is your only neighbour; and yet from all round you there come up the dull hum of the city, the tramp of countless people marching out of time, the rattle of carriages and the continuous keen jingle of the tramway bells.

Looming very big above the heads in a red haze of dust, the tightly packed car of the cable tramway navigated cautiously up the human stream, with the incessant blare of its horn, in the manner of a steamer groping in a fog.

Advancing along the tramway I obtained a nearer view of the hellish buildings, the chimneys, and the demoniac figures.

There was not much active work to be done, only to see that the Indians filled the dump cars evenly full, so none of the broken rock would spill over the side and litter the tramway.

That army has not been employed; and grass grows in a small way, but still beautifully, in the wide space around which the tramway circles.