| 单词 | metropolitan district railway |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMetropolitan District Railway g. With capital initial: short for the London Metropolitan District Railway; also plural shares in this railway. Also attributive. ΚΠ 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Dec. 4 The District trains are now ‘gassed’ only once a day. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 29 Nov. 8/1 We cannot find any sufficient reason for the recent rise in Districts. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 29 May 7/3 To travel on the District from Ealing to the Mansion House and back, third-class, will in the future cost 8d. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 16 July 10/3 Districts were also good in tone at 175/ 8. 1911 W. Owen Lett. (1967) 80 Transported to the other side of London by those wretched District trains. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. XI. 500/1 The District owned the south side of the Inner Circle from Mansion House to South Kensington... District trains reached Uxbridge over the Metropolitan. < as lemmas |
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