parliamentary trains

A form of parliamentary train — A cheap, slow public passenger train as provided for under the Railway Regulation Act 1844 (which ordered railways to run at least one train a day each way, at a cost to passengers of no more than one penny a mile, on every railway line in the country).

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of parliamentary train
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