Train I Treɪn Connected Series Travelling People Platform

• to get on/off a train
• i like travelling by train.
• a passenger/commuter train
• an express/a steam/a bullet train

train

1. a number of connected coaches or trucks, pulled by an engine or powered by a motor in each one, taking people and goods from one place to another
• SEE ALSO boat train
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• to get on/off a train
• I like travelling by train.
• a passenger/commuter train
• an express/a steam/a bullet train
• to catch/take/get the train to London
• He boarded the train in Kansas City.
• a train journey/driver/operator
• Basel's main train station
• He boarded the train in Kansas City.
• You have to change trains at Reading.
• There are regular train services to Edinburgh and Glasgow.
• The train is running late/on time.
• I was on a platform waiting for a train.

Extra Examples

• I can't stop now, I have a train to catch.
• I got the through train to Manchester.
• I was late and had to run for my train.
• I'm going to the station to meet her off the train.
• The company plans to run trains on key intercity routes.
• The high-speed train travels at 120 mph.
• The last train leaves at 00.30.
• The next train to arrive at Platform 2 is the 12.30 from Leeds.
• The train now standing at Platform 3 is the 16.50 to Brighton.
• The train terminated in Baltimore.
• We had to get up early to make the 6 o'clock train for Florence.
• What are the times of the return trains?
• an express train bound for Edinburgh
• the Paris to Brussels train
• trains between Cape Town and Pretoria
• train loads of iron ore
2. a number of people or animals moving in a line
• a camel train
3. a series of events or actions that are connected
• His death set in motion a train of events that led to the outbreak of war.
4. the part of a long formal dress that spreads out on the floor behind the person wearing it
5. to have something as a result
• Unemployment brings great difficulties in its train.
6. following behind somebody
• In the train of the rich and famous came the journalists.
7. to prepare or start something
• That telephone call set in train a whole series of events.
8. the connected series of thoughts that are in your head at a particular time
• The phone ringing interrupted my train of thought.
• I lose my train of thought when there are distractions.

Word Origin

• Middle English (as a noun in the sense ‘delay’): from Old French train (masculine), traine (feminine), from trahiner (verb), from Latin trahere ‘pull, draw’. Early noun senses were ‘trailing part of a robe’ and ‘retinue’; the latter gave rise to ‘line of travelling people or vehicles’, later ‘a connected series of things’. The early verb sense ‘cause a plant to grow in a desired shape’ was the basis of the sense ‘instruct’.