a train carrying passengers at a rate not exceeding one penny per mile, which, by a British Act of Parliament of 1844 (7 & 8 Victoria c. 85)…

attributive (sense 5), as in excursion-train n. a train intended to convey persons making a pleasure excursion, usually at reduced fares; also excur…

Short for parliamentary train n. at compounds. Also figurative. Now historical.

More fully parly train. A parliamentary train (see parliamentary, adj. n.compounds).

a railway train through the length of which a corridor (sense 4b above) or passage extends.

a mineral train which is intended to make a certain number of trips, out and home, in the day; also, an excursion train.

a passenger train which consists of a single coach attached to a small locomotive or having its own engine; a railcar.

(a) a vehicle resembling a bus but running on a railway track; (also) a local passenger train operating in a manner similar to a bus; (b) (in some…

a train taking passengers on a mystery tour.

= pool train n.

(The name of) a proposed public transit system in Pittsburgh designed in the 1960s, which used electric driverless trains on an elevated concrete…

A rail service on which tickets are bought on the train itself rather than at the station before boarding.