well-filled

comparative more well-filled · superlative most well-filled

1. Sufficiently full, without being full to overflowing.

   Again, the 9.00 Kings Cross-Newcastle is very variable in its loading, but the 17.00 back, on which most of the stock returns, is usually well-filled.

   1964 September, G. Freeman Allen, “Interim report on the East Coast Route express service”, in Modern Railways, page 159

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   Speaking of locomotive surefootedness, I was immensely impressed, on a recent journey with the down "Ulsterman" from Euston, when "Royal Scot" 4-6-0 No. 46168, The Girl Guide, cleanly lifted a well-filled 15-coach train of 471 tons tare and 500 tons gross out of the terminus without the service of any banking engine.

   1953 November, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 760

   The train was well filled, with quite an amount of intermediate business; but station staff and passengers alike seemed ready enough to "look lively", and the result was a general "slickness" in working that augers^([sic]) well for the future.

   1959 June 28, O. S. Nock, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 408