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rail tour

rail tour is the alternative form of railtour.

Meaning of railtour

Noun

railtour (plural railtours)

  1. A special excursion by train which is run in order to allow people to experience rail travel which is not available using timetabled passenger services.
    • The town's [(Consett's)] final rail passengers came and went on March 17 1984, with a railtour from Newcastle organised by the Derwent Rail Action Group.2020 April 22, Philip Haigh, “Rethinking, rather than reopening, is the catalyst for growth”, in Rail, page 56

Forms of rail tour

pluralrail tours

Questions about rail tour

What is rail tour the alternative form of?
Rail tour is the alternative form of railtour.

Words near rail tour in the dictionary

  1. rail shooters
  2. rail spike
  3. rail spikes
  4. rail terminal
  5. rail terminals
  6. rail tour
  7. rail tours
  8. rail track
  9. rail tracks
  10. rail trail
  11. rail trails

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rail tour (page history and authors); railtour (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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