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Passenger train   /pˈæsəndʒər treɪn/   Listen
Passenger train

noun
1.
A train that carries passengers.






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"Passenger train" Quotes from Famous Books



... know," I answered silently, glancing at the Times for manners' sake. "I know the whole business. 'Peace between Germany and the Allied Powers was yesterday officially ushered in at Paris—Signor Nitti, the Italian Prime Minister—a passenger train at Doncaster was in collision with a goods train....' We all know—the Times knows—but we pretend we don't." My eyes had once more crept over the paper's rim. She shuddered, twitched her arm queerly to the middle of her back and shook ...
— Monday or Tuesday • Virginia Woolf

... were covering themselves with coats of mud, adorned—one with stripes made with the point of a stick, another with polka-dots, another with checks, and Mealy with snake-like, curving stripes. Then the whole crew dashed down the path to the railroad bridge to greet the afternoon passenger train. When it came they jumped up and down and waved their striped and spotted arms like the barbarian warriors which they fancied they were. They swam up the stream leisurely, and, as they rounded the bend that brought their landing-place into view, the quick eye of Piggy Pennington ...
— The Court of Boyville • William Allen White

... a quarter of an hour ago, and a telegram had just been received that the Boers were, when it was sent off, entering Elandslaagte station, and were in the act of capturing the passenger train that was standing there. The message stopped abruptly, as no doubt the Boers entered the room where the clerk was at work ...
— With Buller in Natal - A Born Leader • G. A. Henty

... is a good time to find out how many people have succeeded in getting on the passenger train, who ought to be in the ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye



Words linked to "Passenger train" :   bullet, train, baggage car, commuter train, passenger car, carriage, railroad train, coach, bullet train, luggage van, commuter, couchette



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