Meanings
adjectiveultra-fast (not comparable)
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of ultrafast.
Less important lines of plain double track carrying a mixture of passenger and freight traffic cannot be given ultra-fast expresses, and where alternative routes exist, as for example between London and the West Riding, the specially high-speed trains must be restricted to one of them only.
1960 February, “Talking of Trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 67
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