out-and-home en · ADJ
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of a journey, to a destination and then returning home.
Most South Western Division workings are on an out-and-home basis and on the shorter runs to Salisbury and Bournemouth, some locomotives manage two return trips in the day.
1962 April, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, in Modern Railways, page 265: