passenger train

noun

: a train that people use for traveling

Examples of passenger train in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web But the most lethal accident in Egyptian rail history occurred in 2002, when a fire on a passenger train traveling south from Cairo to Luxor killed more than 360 people. Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN, 14 Sep. 2024 The first zero-emission passenger train in the U.S. has rolled into San Bernardino, and passengers should be able to ride the clean-energy line early next year, transportation authorities said. Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2024 Dozens of passengers were injured in Los Angeles on Tuesday after a passenger train collided with a bus transporting an unknown number of University of Southern California students. Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 30 Apr. 2024 The second daily round-trip passenger train runs from Chicago to the Twin Cities— by way of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Dells and La Crosse, and has been in the works since 2015. Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 9 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for passenger train 

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“Passenger train.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/passenger%20train. Accessed 22 Sep. 2024.

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