express train

express train

English

Noun

express train (plural express trains)

1. (rail transport) A train (either the service or the train itself) making limited stops.
   • 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 4: The engine-burglar,

     All sorts of dreadful thoughts came to her all together in one horrible flash. There were such things as express trains that went on, she supposed, for hundreds of miles without stopping. Suppose this should be one of them? How would she get home again? She had no money to pay for the return journey.

Synonyms

• crack train (US dialect, dated)
• fast train
• limited

Antonyms

• local train

Derived terms

• Nitro Express

Translations

a train making limited stops

Czech: rychlík (cs) m Dutch: exprestrein (nl) m, sneltrein (nl) m Estonian: kiirrong Finnish: pikajuna (fi), kiitojuna French: train express m, rapide (fr) m German: Schnellzug (de), Intercity (de), ICE (de) Hungarian: gyorsvonat (hu), expresszvonat (hu)

Italian: treno espresso m, espresso (it) m (clipping form), (proper noun +) express (it) m (referring to a named express train, for example: Riviera express, Orient express, ...), EXP m (acronym used on timetables) Japanese: 特急 (ja) (tokkyū) Polish: pociąg pospieszny m Portuguese: trem expresso m Spanish: tren expreso m Swedish: expresståg (sv) n, snälltåg (sv) n

Further reading

• express train on Wikipedia.Wikipedia