pay train

noun

A train carrying people’s wages.

First used 19th c.
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Meanings

nounpay train (plural pay trains)

plural pay trains

  1. historicalrail transportA train carrying people’s wages.First known use 19th c.
  2. rail transportA train for which tickets are bought on board rather than at the station beforehand.First known use 20th c.

    Why was there not more talk about destaffing, pay trains, or simplified signalling or single-tracking?

    2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51
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    Besides, is not the pay-train from Leeds disgorging a clutch of poets every lunch time, to read authentic texts aloud?

    1977, Angela Carter, “The Paris of the North”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 216
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