accommodation train

noun

1. Railroads Now Rare. a local train.

Word History and Origins

Origin of accommodation train¹

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40

Example Sentences

She was on an accommodation train, too, or perhaps it was before they had good railroad service.

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The fact that it was a decayed little coach at the end of a "mixed accommodation train" on a stub road did not matter.

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Says she must be loving someone all the time, even if she is considered in the light of an accommodation train.

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My "arriving" was always in an accommodation train fifty minutes late.

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About noon he asked me to run the Walls accommodation train.

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