| 单词 | liner train |
| 释义 | > as lemmasliner train liner train n. a fast through-running freight train made up of detachable containers on permanently coupled wagons. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > goods train > types of way freight1867 tank-train1901 red ball1906 manifest1912 liner train1962 unit train1962 freightliner1965 1962 Guardian 30 Oct. 3/2 ‘Custom built’ services..so that customers can..‘buy space’ on fixed formation trains—‘liner trains’—whose wagons can..bear their name and line of business. 1963 Reshaping of Brit. Railways (Brit. Railways Board) 142 The description ‘Liner Train’ is applied to a conception of transport based upon joint use of road and rail for door-to-door transport of containerised merchandise, with special purpose, through-running, scheduled trains providing the trunk haul... The Liner Train..is a train of chassis which will remain continuously coupled... The speed will be a maximum of 75 and an average of 50 miles an hour. 1964 Observer 28 June 8/5 If Dr. Beeching's figures are accepted at their face value, the cost of carrying goods by liner trains will be so much less than by heavy lorries..that he should be able to undercut the roads by a comfortable margin. 1970 Daily Mail 16 Feb. 1/6 The plant sends rear axles and brake drums by liner trains to other Ford factories. < as lemmas |
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