local train

English

Noun

local train (plural local trains)

(rail transport) A train (either the service or the train itself) making stops at all stations along its route.
- 2021 June 30, Philip Haigh, “Regional trains squeezed as ECML congestion heads north”, in RAIL, number 934, page 53:
  For all the attention on express trains, it's often local trains that tip the railway into congestion.

Usage notes

Local train is especially used to distinguish between an express train (and/or semi-express train) serving the same route.

2024 July 16, “stations & lines”, in Map of NYC commuter rail‎^[1], retrieved 2021-01-26:

Each train line is called "Local" or "Express":

* Local Train: Trains stop at all stations without exception.

* Express Train: trains stop only every 2, 3, 4 or 5 stations depending on the NYC locations served.

Otherwise, if all trains have the same schedule (such as a line serving a branch track in a rural area), local train can be considered redundant, since there is no distinction to other trains, although it is not necessarily wrong.

Synonyms

accommodation train (US)
commuter train (esp. if primarily used by or intended for commuters)
non-express train
parliamentary train (UK, dated, especially if stops are made for legal reasons and not any actual/significant passenger demand)
slow train
stopping train (Br.)
stopper (Br.)
way-train (US)

Antonyms

express train
express (provided that context implies “train”)
fast train
crack train (US, dialect, dated)

Hypernyms

train

Hyponyms

local passenger train

Translations

train or train service serving all or almost all stations along its route

Danish: regionaltog
Dutch: stoptrein (nl) (literally “stop train”), sprinter (nl), boemeltrein (nl) (literally “dawdling train”), boemel (nl), forensentrein (nl), lokaaltrein (nl) m
Finnish: paikallisjuna (fi)
French: train omnibus (fr) m
German: (fam., humorously) Bummelzug (de) (literally “dawdling train”), (overly technical) Nahverkehrszug (de) (literally “local traffic train”), Regionalbahn (de) (literally “regional rail”), (esp. Swiss German) Regionalzug
Italian: treno locale
Japanese: 各駅停車 (ja) (kakueki teisha, literally “stopping at every station”), 普通列車 (ja) (futsū ressha, literally “ordinary train”)
Norwegian: regiontog
Romanian: tren local n
Spanish: ferrocarril regional, tren regional
Swedish: lokaltåg (sv), regionaltåg (sv)
Yiddish: בענכל n (benkhl)