express train
Noun
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Noun
express train (plural express trains)
- (rail) A train (either the service or the train itself) making limited stops.
- 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 4: The engine-burglar,
- All sorts of dreadful thoughts came to her all together in one horrible flash. There were such things as express trains that went on, she supposed, for hundreds of miles without stopping. Suppose this should be one of them? How would she get home again? She had no money to pay for the return journey.
- 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 4: The engine-burglar,
- crack train (US dialect, dated)
- fast train
- limited
- local train
- French: train express, rapide
- German: Schnellzug, Intercity, ICE
- Italian: treno espresso, espresso (clipping form), (proper noun +) express (referring to a named express train, for example: Riviera express, Orient express, ...), EXP (acronym used on timetables)
- Portuguese: trem expresso
- Russian: экспре́сс
- Spanish: tren expreso
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