passenger train

plural passenger trains

1. rail transportA train whose primary function is to carry passengers.

   The programme would increase capacity and create space for 736 more passenger trains on the network each day.

   2019 October, Tony Miles, “Midlands Connect's £3.5bn plan”, in Modern Railways, page 16

   1 more example

   The "Scotian" is hardly a passenger train at all: typically, it consists of two 1,750 h.p. diesel units, four fish cars, five parcel cars, two mail cars, a baggage car, two passenger coaches and a sleeper which only goes part of the way.

   1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 553