Meanings
- uncountableA (former) class of mail in the United States and Canada.
- uncountablerail transportA class of rail travel formerly found in some countries.
[…] up in front the third and fourth class passengers were making a babel of noise as they either detrained or entrained together with their large families and strange collection of parcels, bundles and earthenware jars.
1958 February 28, Arthur F. Beckenham, “A Journey in the Belgian Congo”, in Railway Magazine, page 931 more example
[…] Mr. S. C. Hawtrey writes that when he knew the Moscow-Kazan Railway (then under British management) in 1913, it was a regular practice in Russia to paint the exterior of first class coaches blue, second class yellow, third class green, and fourth class, where it still survived, brown.
1946 May and June, “Notes and News: Russian Coach Colours”, in Railway Magazine, pages 184–185
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