English Dictionary

milk train

noun

(UK, colloquial) A slow passenger train leaving in the early hours of the morning. / (rail transport) A goods train that carried milk, usually in tank wagons.

The milk train arrives at the station every morning.

意味（1）

(UK, colloquial) A slow passenger train leaving in the early hours of the morning.

意味（2）

(rail transport) A goods train that carried milk, usually in tank wagons.

On the Western Region, milk trains work up to London from Penzance, Wellington (Som.), Weymouth, Whitland, Carmarthen and Wootton Bassett, each train making several intermediate stops to attach further milk tanks, and in some cases to shed them.