Meaning of milk train | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A slow passenger train leaving in the early hours of the morning.
   UK, colloquial
2. A goods train that carried milk, usually in tank wagons.

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Examples

“But I also felt again the remembered romantic warmth of nodding off on the milk-train home in the early hours, with Liz by my side.”

“On the Western Region, milk trains work⟳ up to London from Penzance, Wellington (Som.), Weymouth, Whitland, Carmarthen and Wootton Bassett, each train⟳ making several intermediate stops to attach further milk tanks, and in some cases to shed⟳ them.”

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