interurban

adj

1. (not-comparable)Of, pertaining to, involving or joining two or more urban centres.

   “One of the commercial attachés of the Department of Commerce in South America transmits the name and address of an engineer who desires to receive full information relative to an automotor for an interurban railway.”

noun

1. (US)An electric railway carrying mainly passengers between two or more urban centres.

   “interurban car, interurban line, interurban railroad”

   “Q. Took the interurban at Denison? A. Yes, sir. Q. And went from there to McKinney on the interurban?”

   “The act was elective and included the hazardous employments listed (they fill 112 pages of print) and include railroads, mines, interurbans, logging, iron and steel manufacture, packing houses, construction work, etc., etc.”

   “... but debits and credits arising from the operation of such street electric passenger railways, including railways commonly called interurbans, as are at the time of the agreement not under Federal control, shall be excluded.”