Meanings
alternative walkthrough
- not comparableThat can be walked through.
- not comparablerail transportOf passenger carriages in a train, having no doors in gangway connections between the carriages, often in combination with longitudinal seating, creating a "see-through" effect through the train.
Unlike the older trains, the new units have walk-through carriages and longitudinal rather than transverse seating.
2023 February 22, Paul Stephen, “TfL reveals first of new B23s for Docklands Light Railway”, in RAIL, number 977, page 121 more example
The new trains will also be fully 'walk-through', with no carriage end-doors. Travelling on them is like riding on a sinuous, moving corridor. It's less claustrophobic than the old arrangement, but now you can no longer choose the carriage not occupied by the declaiming loony.
2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 277
plural walk-throughs · alternative walkthrough
- alternativeAlternative form of walkthrough.
Origin
Deverbal from walk through.
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