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Definition of Passenger train
1. Noun. A train that carries passengers.
Specialized synonyms: Bullet, Bullet Train, Commuter, Commuter Train
Terms within: Couchette
Generic synonyms: Railroad Train, Train
Definition of Passenger train
1. Noun. A train whose primary function is to carry passengers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Literary usage of Passenger train
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1915)
"82, the person had entered the station and purchased a ticket intending to take
a passenger train soon to arrive, and the case holds that such a party ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"This witness estimates that the passenger train engine was "25 yards" (or 75 ...
The witness for plaintiff who puts the passenger train engine farthest away ..."
3. The Pennsylvania Railroad: Its Origin, Construction, Condition, and by William B. Sipes (1875)
"In cases when a passenger train of an inferior class meets a passenger train of
a superior class on single track, the train of inferior class must take the ..."
4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1915)
"53, northbound, daily, due at 10: 58 A. 1C.; southbound passenger train No.
54, daily, due at 9: 00 AM; and freight train No. ..."
5. Annual Report by New Jersey Civil Service Commission (1908)
"NOTE B.—-The cost of repairing passenger-train care of foreign lines wa3-bll!ed as
freight, damaged lu transit, should be charged to account " Loss and ..."
6. Railway Economy: A Treatise on the New Art of Transport, Its Management by Dionysius Lardner (1850)
"... when it is said that the average number of vehicles composing a passenger
train was 8'26, and the average number of vehicles composing a goods train was ..."
7. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"The particular place where a person may be on a passenger train does not ...
A person who boards a passenger train, having the means and Intending in good ..."
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