boat train

English

Noun

boat train (plural boat trains)

  1. (UK, Ireland, travel, rail transport) A travel service with a train timed to arrive at a ferry port in time for the onward travel by ferry (or vice versa). Alternatively, a service scheduled to connect with the arrival or departure of an ocean liner.
    • 1943 July and August, “Restaurant-Car Services in Ireland”, in Railway Magazine, page 210:
      In 1906 the cross-channel service was inaugurated between Fishguard and Rosslare Harbour. For this the Great Southern & Western Railway built two boat trains of corridor stock, with a restaurant car (57½ ft. in length), to run between Rosslare and Cork.
    • 1964 March, “News and Comment: Stormy passage for BR boat trains”, in Modern Railways, page 153:
      In January BR were attacked by three of the country's major shipping companies for the poor standards of boat train services run from Tilbury and Southampton Docks.

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