passenger train

noun

: a train that people use for traveling

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Anyone who has sat on a passenger train is familiar with the delays caused by the lumbering passage of freight. The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2025 The last passenger train departing from Cincinnati’s Union Terminal in 1972 marked the end of an era. Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025 One of the blasts blew out the windows of a passenger train carrying about 500 people. Arkansas Online, 25 June 2025 Special tours Reynolds said the bikes are much easier to maintain than the hulking steam engines and passenger train cars on the same train. John Tuohy, IndyStar, 8 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for passenger train

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“Passenger train.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/passenger%20train. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.

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