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ghost train

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ghost train (plural ghost trains)

  1. A fairground attraction in which participants ride through a haunted house in a railcar.
  2. (theater) An excursion done by many tourist railways around the world. Usually, a fictional story is created and performed with static displays or live actors on either side of a train. Actors and actresses play out a story on the long and narrow stage provided by the railcar aisles.
  3. (UK) A rail service which does not appear in the public timetables.
  4. (UK) A supernatural manifestation of a railway locomotive or passenger cars.
  5. An unmanned train rolling on the train line.
  6. A train service that no longer exists, having stopped running.
    • 2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 47:
      As a second-year student at Kharkiv University, I took a summer job as a conductor of the train that ran from Novorossiysk on the Russian Black Sea coast to Kaliningrad in the Baltics - a 48-hour journey via Kharkiv, from where the train originated. In modern geographical terms, it went across four independent states: Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, and Lithuania. As such, it has now joined the long list of 'ghost trains', extinguished by the ongoing war.

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