slip coach
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editslip coach (plural slip coaches)
- (rail transport) A coach at the end of a long-distance train which carries passengers for an intermediate destination and is decoupled or "slipped" and left behind. (In bygone times the decoupling was done on the move; the rest of the train did not stop.)
- 1960 February, “Talking of Trains: The vanishing slip-coach”, in Trains Illustrated, page 72:
- 1960 October, “Talking of Trains: The last of the slip coach”, in Trains Illustrated, page 577:
- Friday, September 9, saw the last of the slip coach in Great Britain; the location was Bicester, and the train was the 5.10 p.m. from Paddington to Wolverhampton, which from September 12 began to stop there instead.
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editcoach at the end of a long-distance train which carries passengers for an intermediate destination
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