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passenger train

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passenger train (plural passenger trains)

  1. (rail transport) A train whose primary function is to carry passengers.
    • 1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 553:
      The "Scotian" is hardly a passenger train at all: typically, it consists of two 1,750 h.p. diesel units, four fish cars, five parcel cars, two mail cars, a baggage car, two passenger coaches and a sleeper which only goes part of the way.
    • 2019 October, Tony Miles, “Midlands Connect's £3.5bn plan”, in Modern Railways, page 16:
      The programme would increase capacity and create space for 736 more passenger trains on the network each day.

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