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boat train

n.
A train that regularly carries passengers between a city and a port.
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boat train

n
a train scheduled to take passengers to or from a particular ship
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boat′ train`


n.
a train scheduled to carry passengers to or from a port city.
[1880–85]
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Noun1.boat train - a train taking passengers to or from a port
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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"It looks like the young man who missed the boat train," he remarked.
I was to have gone by the boat train which left half an hour ago.
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Anne dressed in the cheerless gray dawn, for an early start was necessary to catch the boat train; she struggled against the tears that WOULD well up in her eyes in spite of herself.
It rained heavily all the way to Bright River, to which station they had to go, since the branch line train from Carmody did not connect with the boat train. Charlie and Gilbert were on the station platform when they reached it, and the train was whistling.
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He had planned to stop in Liverpool; but, instead, he took the boat train for London.
I landed at Liverpool this morning and came down on the boat train."
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"Miladi Carey left to catch the boat train at Calais for England."
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"A three-year-old Dundee girl, travelling in a Victoria to Dover boat train, fell on the line while the train was going through Sevenoaks, Kent, tunnel yesterday," read the report.
63 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
| Children paddling in the pool overlooking the harbour in Holyhead in around 1970 | One of the prehistoric hut circles called Cytiau'r Gwyddelod (Huts of the Irish) on Holyhead Mountain, pictured in June 1969 | Passengers at Holyhead station in the Edwardian or late Victorian era, about to board the express boat train to London | Holyhead Girl Guides at their new Guide Hall in Trearddur Square in 1976
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They guarded Cardiff Central Station and watched passengers board the Fishguard boat train for Ireland.
The six-year-old schoolgirl who disappeared from Cardiff and was found murdered 60 miles away; When Carol Stephens was found dead, there were few clues pointing to the killer
and stayed a couple days at his London home in Albert Hall Mansions before he took the Titanic express boat train from Waterloo to Southampton.
Nostalgia HEADY HEHHADY H4HHADY HEADY Brum industrial giant perished in icy waters of North Atlantic Nostalgia
The boat train was very popular as well, but you had to catch it from London.
The romance - and the pollution - of steam trains

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