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passenger train

passenger train noun: a train whose primary function is to carry passengers.

Noun

passenger train (plural passenger trains)

  1. A train whose primary function is to carry passengers.
    • The "Scotian" is hardly a passenger train at all: typically, it consists of two 1,750 h.p. diesel units, four fish cars, five parcel cars, two mail cars, a baggage car, two passenger coaches and a sleeper which only goes part of the way.1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 553
    • The programme would increase capacity and create space for 736 more passenger trains on the network each day.2019 October, Tony Miles, “Midlands Connect's £3.5bn plan”, in Modern Railways, page 16

Forms of passenger train

pluralpassenger trains

Questions about passenger train

What does passenger train mean?
Passenger train means a train whose primary function is to carry passengers.
What part of speech is passenger train?
Passenger train is a noun.
What is the plural of passenger train?
The plural of passenger train is passenger trains.

Words near passenger train in the dictionary

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  8. passenger virus
  9. passenger viruses
  10. passenger-mile
  11. passenger-miles

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