milk trainとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

milk train (複数形 milk trains)

1. (Britain, colloquial) A slow passenger train leaving in the early hours of the morning.
2. (rail transport) A goods train that carried milk, usually in tank wagons.
   • 1959 March, R. C. Riley, “Home with the Milk”, in Trains Illustrated, page 154:

     On the Western Region, milk trains work up to London from Penzance, Wellington (Som.), Weymouth, Whitland, Carmarthen and Wootton Bassett, each train making several intermediate stops to attach further milk tanks, and in some cases to shed them.