passenger train

noun

: a train that people use for traveling

Examples of passenger train in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Many of the victims were university students heading back to class after a public holiday when their passenger train slammed into an oncoming cargo train after the two were accidentally put onto the same track heading in opposite directions. Derek Gatopoulos and Costas Kantouris, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2024 When the wall is completed, probably in less than a month, passenger train service is expected to resume. Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2024 The slipping slopes have halted passenger train service through the town for nearly two weeks; the Mariposa Bridge over the city’s popular beach trail was also damaged and a section had to be removed. Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 6 Feb. 2024 An Amtrak passenger train derailed in Colorado on Monday night after hitting a truck hauling a tanker of milk, sending at least three people to the hospital, authorities said. Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 30 Jan. 2024 Before that, a landslide in April 2023 below the city’s historic Casa Romantica, suspended passenger train traffic for about a month. Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024 President Joe Biden’s administration doled out millions to study how to expand passenger train corridors across the U.S. on Friday. Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 6 Feb. 2024 All the passenger options couldn’t be shown in the mock-up, which at 68 feet was smaller than a standard passenger train car of 80 feet to 100 feet. Randy Diamond, Sacramento Bee, 26 Jan. 2024 Security incidents, including four deaths in an arson attack on a passenger train on Friday, intensified tensions ahead of the election that was shunned by Zia’s party and its allied groups. TIME, 8 Jan. 2024

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“Passenger train.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/passenger%20train. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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