vestibule train

English edit

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Noun edit

vestibule train (plural vestibule trains)

(railways) A train of passenger cars having the space between the end doors of adjacent cars enclosed, so as to allow the doors to be left open to provide for intercommunication between all the cars.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vestibule train”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)