Meanings
plural non-passengers
- alternativeAlternative form of nonpassenger.
- attributiveNot involving or relating to passengers.
The electric locomotives, which have been a familiar sight for so many years, are to be withdrawn from passenger service, but a few will be retained for miscellaneous non-passenger duties.
1961 October, “Talking of Trains: Metropolitan service revised”, in Trains Illustrated, page 5841 more example
The last but necessary characters to be described in the later 1970s, were the non-passenger locomotives brought into Amtrak stock with the purchase of the North-East Corridor from Conrail in 1976.
1985, Rodger Bradley, Amtrak; The US National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Blandford Press, page 137
Origin
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