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coal trains

coal trains is the plural of coal train.

Meaning of coal train

Noun

coal train (plural coal trains)

  1. a freight train which carries a single commodity: coal.
    • Some interesting facts have recently been made known by the L.N.E.R. concerning the 178-ton Garratt 2-8-0 + 0-8-2 engine No. 2395, which since construction in 1925 has spent the whole of its working life banking coal trains up the 3 miles of 1 in 40 between Wentworth junction and West Silkstone, on...1942 March, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes”, in Railway Magazine, page 93

Questions about coal trains

What is coal trains the plural of?
Coal trains is the plural of coal train.

Words near coal trains in the dictionary

  1. coal tit
  2. coal tits
  3. coal town
  4. coal towns
  5. coal train
  6. coal trains
  7. coal worker's pneumoconiosis
  8. coal-based
  9. coal-bearing
  10. coal-black
  11. coal-fired

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