stopping train

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stopping train (plural stopping trains)

  1. (rail transport) A passenger train that stops at most, if not all, of the stations on the route in the course of its journey.
    • 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 135:
      Most of the through Leicester-Birmingham workings are non-stop between Leicester and Hinckley, leaving the intermediate stations to be served by the largely hourly stopping trains between Leicester and Nuneaton.
    • 1962 May, “Ashchurch to lose another branch service”, in Modern Railways, page 299, photo caption:
      Another view of Ashchurch station on August 18, 1961, with "Royal Scot" 4-6-0 No. 46148 The Manchester Regiment restarting a Worcester-Cheltenham stopping train and a Class 4 2-6-0 at the branch platform on a train from Redditch.

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