trainload

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train load

Etymology edit

train +‎ load

Noun edit

trainload (plural trainloads)

(rail transport) The amount that can be transported by a train.
- 1961 April, “Talking of Trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 195:
  A surprisingly technical question from the audience on the possibility of working coal traffic in more substantial trainloads from pit to power station elicited the answer that the N.E.R. had hopes of more circuit working with specially designed high-capacity wagons on the style of the bogie 56-tonners used for the ore traffic between Tyne Dock and Consett, [...].
- 1962 November, “News in Brief”, in Modern Railways, page 306:
  A new oil traffic in block trainloads, expected to amount to 150,000 tons of refined motor spirit annually for B.R., has begun between the Shell refinery at Stanlow and a new terminal built at Hunslet East in connection with Shell-Mex and B.P.'s expansion scheme at Knostrop, Leeds....
- 2022 April 20, Tony Streeter, Paul Clifton, “Relief train from the UK takes aid to Ukraine”, in RAIL, number 955, page 29:
  Has anything not gone to plan? "It is not possible to send a train load of humanitarian aid without a train load of bureaucracy to go with it. We live and learn...!"
(by extension) A large amount.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:lot

You just bought yourself a trainload of trouble. I think you're now in over your head.
- 1926, Gerald William Bullett, The Baker's Cart: And Other Tales, page 164:
  A shudder ran through Mr. Binnacle. Better a whole trainload of invigilators than this grotesque and solitary persecutor!
- 2012, Mary Seaton, Tales From The Sand Hills, page 47:
  They were peculiar people, slow. Well more backwards I think, probably a bit retarded. Well very retarded actually - the father had a few 'roos loose in the top paddock but the mother had a whole trainload.

Synonyms edit

trainful