autocoach
autocoach noun: an unpowered railway coach with a driving cab at one end, used in a push-pull train in conjunction with a locomotive or other powered vehicle.
Noun
autocoach (plural autocoaches)
- An unpowered railway coach with a driving cab at one end, used in a push-pull train in conjunction with a locomotive or other powered vehicle.
- It is hoped to feature the historic vehicles to be found on the line in a future article, so that full justice may be done to the painstaking work of renovation on many of them, such as the North Eastern Railway Coach Group's NER autocoach No 3453.1979 August, Michael Harris, “A line for all reasons: the North Yorkshire Moors Railway”, in Railway World, page 415
- Synonyms:
- driving trailer
Synonyms of autocoach
Forms of autocoach
| plural | autocoaches |
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Origin of autocoach
From auto- (“self-propelled”) + coach.
Questions about autocoach
- What does autocoach mean?
- Autocoach means an unpowered railway coach with a driving cab at one end, used in a push-pull train in conjunction with a locomotive or other powered vehicle.
- What part of speech is autocoach?
- Autocoach is a noun.
- What is the plural of autocoach?
- The plural of autocoach is autocoaches.
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