Meanings
noundriving trailer (plural driving trailers)
plural driving trailers
- rail transportAn unpowered coach fitted with a driving cab and placed at one or both ends of a train.
The motor coaches will have no driving compartments, and the end vehicles of every unit will be driving trailers.
1954 November, “Trains for Southend Electrification”, in Railway Magazine, page 737Synonyms: autocoach
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn unpowered coach fitted with a driving cab and placed at one or both ends of a train.
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