Meaning of slip coach | Babel Free
Definitions
A coach at the end of a long-distance train which carries passengers for an intermediate destination and is decoupled or "slipped" and left behind. (In bygone times the decoupling was done on the move; the rest of the train did not stop.)
Equivalents
Gaeilge
cóiste inscoite
Examples
“Slip-coach workings on the Western Region, the last⟳ stronghold of this practice, are now reduced to two daily - at Didcot off the 7.0 a.m. Weston-super-Mare-Paddington; and at Bicester (Saturdays excepted) off the 5.10 p.m. Paddington-Wolverhampton.”
“Friday, September 9, saw⟳ the last⟳ of the slip⟳ coach in Great Britain; the location was Bicester, and the train⟳ was the 5.10 p.m. from Paddington to Wolverhampton, which from September 12 began to stop⟳ there instead.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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