A fast train that carries mail.
the gang robbed a Glasgow-to-London mail train
Example sentencesExamples
- The group gave notice that mail trains will be stopped altogether from next March, with all post being distributed by road and air.
- He and his team made off with £2.6m in 1963 after holding up the Glasgow-London mail train.
- Early the next year he was returning to London from Scotland by a night express when it collided with a Yorkshire mail train in a sudden mist.
- Night mail trains could be set for a comeback, just months after the service was ditched for being too costly.
- Currently only a select number of these mail trains stop at these railway stations.
- The Monday mail train ran on time.
- Quite simply the road transportation is not working and they should get the mail trains back on the rails as soon as possible.
- Kelly, the man wrongly jailed in the wake of a mail train robbery in 1976, will run for Labour in the next election.
- There are still 15 mail trains on the West Coast Mainline.
- Mail trains have the toughest performance regime on the rail network and are the best performing services.