Dictionary

express train en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A train (either the service or the train itself) making limited stops.
   • 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 4: The engine-burglar, All sorts of dreadful thoughts came to her all together in one horrible flash. There were such things as express trains that went on, she supposed, for hundreds of miles without stopping. Suppose this should be one of them? How would she get home again? She had no money to pay for the return journey.
   • For all the attention on express trains, it's often local trains that tip the railway into congestion. 2021 June 30, Philip Haigh, “Regional trains squeezed as ECML congestion heads north”, in RAIL, number 934, page 53:
   • King's Messenger, 1918-1940: Memoirs of a Silver Greyhound. By George P. Antrobus, O.B.E., King's Foreign Service Messenger 1918-1940. London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd. Price 10s. 6d. net. [...] "The great European express trains have an air of mystery and romance about them. Truth to tell, this is but ill-deserved. Except over the French portion of their journey they have no right to the title of express"—he was writing of conditions before the great speed-up of the last decade— [...]. 1941 October, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 480:

Forms

Antonyms

local train

Synonyms

limited · fast train · crack train

Translations (39)

de ICE (a train making limited stops) · fi kiitojuna (a train making limited stops) · et kiirrong (a train making limited stops) · eo eksprestrajno (a train making limited stops) · rsk шнелцуґ (a train making limited stops) · nb ekspresstog (a train making limited stops) · hu expresszvonat (a train making limited stops) · pl pociąg pospieszny (a train making limited stops) · ja 特急 (a train making limited stops) · de Intercity (a train making limited stops) · fi pikajuna (a train making limited stops) · ru экспре́сс (a train making limited stops) · pt trem expresso (a train making limited stops) · it express (a train making limited stops) · nn ekspresstog (a train making limited stops) · de Eilzug (a train making limited stops) · ro tren expres (a train making limited stops) · es TER (a train making limited stops) · cs rychlík (a train making limited stops) · it espresso (a train making limited stops) · ja 急行 (a train making limited stops) · da iltog (a train making limited stops) · it treno espresso (a train making limited stops) · sv expresståg (a train making limited stops) · es tren expreso (a train making limited stops) · nl sneltrein (a train making limited stops) · pl pospieszny (a train making limited stops) · hu gyorsvonat (a train making limited stops) · nl exprestrein (a train making limited stops) · da lyntog (a train making limited stops) · sv snälltåg (a train making limited stops) · fr rapide (a train making limited stops) · it EXP (a train making limited stops) · rsk швидки гайзибан (a train making limited stops) · de Schnellzug (a train making limited stops) · da hurtigtog (a train making limited stops) · ru курье́рский по́езд (a train making limited stops) · fr train express (a train making limited stops) · es Ter (a train making limited stops)