Meanings
- not comparablerail transportOf a railway, one that caters for both passenger and freight traffic.
But it is the joy of running Britain's railways that we are the busiest mixed-traffic railway probably in the world, and the way we've ended up interacting freight and different classes of passenger traffic does mean that it's very hard to give anyone priority - [...]
2020 May 20, Andrew Haines talks to Stefanie Foster, “Repurpose rail for the 2020s”, in Rail, page 32 - not comparablerail transportOf a locomotive, one intended for both passenger and freight trains.
The first of a class of powerful mixed-traffic electric locomotives have already been delivered and are undergoing tests on a special four-mile oval test track near Peking.
1961 February, “The 6,000 h.p. French electric locomotives for China”, in Trains Illustrated, page 911 more example
Thirty mixed-traffic 4-8-2 locomotives recently completed by the Vulcan Foundry Limited for the 3 ft. 6 in. gauge Gold Coast Government Railway have all their axles, big ends, and coupling and eccentric rods fitted with British Timken roller bearings.
1952 February, “New Locomotives for the Gold Coast [now Ghana]”, in Railway Magazine, page 74
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