westboundadj.adv.n.

1847 Caledonian Mercury 29 Mar. Undaunted, of and from Newcastle, west bound.

1861 Joint Ann. Rep. Bellefontaine Raid Road Line for 1860 7 A portion of this came from increased through travel..; the larger amount, however, from the increase of West-bound merchandize.

1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 Sept. 2/3 He will at once give you a west-bound ticket to Chicago.

1902 Westm. Gaz. 22 Oct. 1/3 The West-bound traveller..would choose his 'bus..along the Embankment.

1951 ‘J. Wyndham’ Day of Triffids i. 9 The westbound buses thundered along trying to beat the lights.

2008 Wall St. Jrnl. 22 Jan. d1/4 Thunderstorms west of New York caused air-traffic controllers to suspend westbound departures for long periods of time.

1888 San Francisco Chron. 21 Dec. 8/8 Trains running westbound are in double sections every day.

1915 Traffic World 8 May 1014/2 There is no incentive to load to capacity cars returning westbound, as the railroads have to move their cars west..to accommodate other shipments.

1960 N.Y. Times 3 Apr. 64/4 The cab was going westbound when it struck the child and then sped away.

1989 S. Carolina Hist. Mag. 90 318 The logs of 4,160 sailing ships reported to have sailed westbound during the period 1821–1860.

2002 B. Solomon Railway Masterpieces (2003) 138/1 Westbound, the train crosses the Albula Pass.

1897 R. Kipling in Scribner's Mag. Aug. 147/2 When the West-bound's ditched, and the tool-car's hitched, And it's 'way for the Breakdown Gang.

1909 R. A. Wason Happy Hawkins 222 This time the west-bound had to take a sidin' and wait twenty minutes for the east-bound.

1948 Pop. Western June 17/2 He'll probably leave the train and flag the next westbound back to Caprock.

1998 L. Kalpakian Caveat i. 3 Noting that the westbound from Arizona had not yet arrived, they hurried through the station to the crowded platform.