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milk trains

milk trains is the plural of milk train.

Meaning of milk train

Noun

milk train (plural milk trains)

  1. (UK, colloquial) A slow passenger train leaving in the early hours of the morning.
    • But I also felt again the remembered romantic warmth of nodding off on the milk-train home in the early hours, with Liz by my side.2012, Pete Townshend, Who I Am, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 245
  2. A goods train that carried milk, usually in tank wagons.
    • On the Western Region, milk trains work up to London from Penzance, Wellington (Som.), Weymouth, Whitland, Carmarthen and Wootton Bassett, each train making several intermediate stops to attach further milk tanks, and in some cases to shed them.1959 March, R. C. Riley, “Home with the Milk”, in Trains Illustrated, page 154

Questions about milk trains

What is milk trains the plural of?
Milk trains is the plural of milk train.

Words near milk trains in the dictionary

  1. milk token
  2. milk tokens
  3. milk tongue
  4. milk tooth
  5. milk train
  6. milk trains
  7. milk treading
  8. milk truck
  9. milk trucks
  10. milk tusk
  11. milk tusks

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