passenger train


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Noun1.passenger train - a train that carries passengerspassenger train - a train that carries passengers  
baggage car, luggage van - a railway car where passengers' bags are carried
bullet train, bullet - a high-speed passenger train
commuter, commuter train - a passenger train that is ridden primarily by passengers who travel regularly from one place to another
couchette - a compartment on a European passenger train; contains 4 to 6 berths for sleeping
carriage, passenger car, coach - a railcar where passengers ride
railroad train, train - public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive; "express trains don't stop at Princeton Junction"
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The goods trains had all been stopped at Ipswich, and the first passenger train was not due till six o'clock."
Now and again an overland passenger train rushed by in the distance, echoing along the background of foothills of Mt.
TOBA TEK SINGH -- Twelve passengers were injured on Friday morning after a passenger train derailed in Toba Tek Singh.
Passenger trains have been required to have fail-safe brakes since 1895, under an Act of 1889, as a result of the Armagh accident, where a passenger train ran away, killing 80.
Though there were calls for the resignation of Rasheed as the head of the railways ministry, an initial report pins the blame on the driver and the assistant driver of after a passenger train rammed into a parked goods train in Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab.
The freight train was standing on the loop line when the passenger train, instead of running on the mainline, went on the wrong track.
A collision between a passenger train and a stationary freight train near the central town of Rahim Yar Khan in Pakistan has killed at least 15 people, with more than 70 others injured, according to police and hospital officials.
51154/51153 Bhusaval-Mumbai Passenger train and 51318/51317 Pune-Panvel Passenger train.
First passenger train 369 Novosibirsk-Tashkent was departed from Shymkent station on 22:30 (GMT +6) on June 26.
HYDERABAD -- A fully-fledged inquiry into the June 20 train accident involving passenger train Jinnah Express and a coal-laden goods train would be conducted next month by the Lahore-based federal general inspector railways (FGIR), it was learnt on Sunday.
Earlier on June, 20 At least three people, a train driver and two assistant drivers, were killed and several others injured after a passenger train collided with a freight train near Hyderabad.

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