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mail trains

mail trains is the plural of mail train.

Meaning of mail train

Noun

mail train (plural mail trains)

  1. A train used by the postal service to transport mail, and in some cases, to sort mail en route.
    • A journey from Mombasa to Kampala is by no means dull. The mail train consists of about 13 carriages, three first, three second, three or four third, a restaurant car and two or three old first class non-corridor carriages used as seconds. This comes to about 400 tons tare. In addition there are...1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 263

Questions about mail trains

What is mail trains the plural of?
Mail trains is the plural of mail train.

Words near mail trains in the dictionary

  1. mail slot
  2. mail slots
  3. mail stop
  4. mail stops
  5. mail train
  6. mail trains
  7. mail truck
  8. mail trucks
  9. mail user agent
  10. mail user agents
  11. mail-box

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