stopping train
stopping train noun: a passenger train that stops at most, if not all, of the stations on the route in the course of its journey.
Noun
stopping train (plural stopping trains)
- A passenger train that stops at most, if not all, of the stations on the route in the course of its journey.
- Most of the through Leicester-Birmingham workings are non-stop between Leicester and Hinckley, leaving the intermediate stations to be served by the largely hourly stopping trains between Leicester and Nuneaton.1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 135
- Another view of Ashchurch station on August 18, 1961, with "Royal Scot" 4-6-0 No. 46148 The Manchester Regiment restarting a Worcester-Cheltenham stopping train and a Class 4 2-6-0 at the branch platform on a train from Redditch.1962 May, “Ashchurch to lose another branch service”, in Modern Railways, page 299, photo caption
Synonyms of stopping train
Forms of stopping train
| plural | stopping trains |
|---|
Questions about stopping train
- What does stopping train mean?
- Stopping train means a passenger train that stops at most, if not all, of the stations on the route in the course of its journey.
- What part of speech is stopping train?
- Stopping train is a noun.
- What is the plural of stopping train?
- The plural of stopping train is stopping trains.
Words near stopping train in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: stopping train (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.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “stopping train.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/stopping_train. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.