How to Use passenger train in a Sentence

passenger train

noun
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  • This site could provide easy storage for the passenger train, but issues could arise because the site is currently for sale and being marketed for redevelopment, Callin said.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The last passenger train was just before 1 A.M., but then came the late-night freight trains.
    — Haruki Murakami, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The impact of the collision left the passenger train's restaurant car on top of two other cars.
    — Will Gretsky, ABC News, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Rescuers used iron rods and ropes to work free one carriage of the passenger train that had been swept upwards to lodge on the roof of the freight train by the impact of the collision.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 17 June 2024
  • More than 300 people were onboard the high-speed passenger train heading to Kosice, Slovakia, at the time of the collision.
    — Evan Rosen, New York Daily News, 6 June 2024
  • The passenger train had changed lanes and switched to a cargo track before the collision, according to ERT.
    — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Greece has erupted in anger following the crash last Tuesday between a freight train and a passenger train.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The crash started when a passenger train slammed into a stationary freight train.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 6 June 2023
  • Part of the first passenger train jumped the tracks and hit cars in another passenger train that was passing in the opposite direction in the eastern state of Odisha.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 6 June 2023
  • The storm brought record rains, caused widespread river flooding and touched off landslides that shut down Amtrak passenger train service.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2023
  • At least 57 people, many of them in their teens and 20s, were killed when a northbound passenger train and a southbound freight train collided late Tuesday north of the city of Larissa, in central Greece.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2023
  • In 2005, at least two dozen people were killed when a crowded passenger train slammed into a stationary cargo train in the western state of Gujarat.
    — Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 2 June 2023
  • The last passenger train before then departed Union Depot in 1971.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 21 May 2024
  • Cargo and passenger train service resumed Monday at the site of Friday’s deadly three-way train crash in India, which killed at least 275 people.
    — Krishna Pokharel, WSJ, 6 June 2023
  • Amtrak has canceled passenger train trips for 10 of its East Coast routes scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, the company's service alert shows.
    — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • At least 36 people were killed and more than 80 others injured in a head-on collision between a freight train and a passenger train in Greece late Tuesday, officials said.
    — Will Gretsky, ABC News, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The slipping slopes have halted passenger train service through the town for nearly two weeks; the Mariposa Bridge over the city’s popular beach trail was also damaged and a section had to be removed.
    — Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 6 Feb. 2024
  • When the wall is completed, probably in less than a month, passenger train service is expected to resume.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2024
  • These carriages were then hit by another passenger train.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 3 June 2023
  • At least 29 people are dead and 85 injured after a commercial train and a passenger train collided and derailed in Greece on Tuesday.
    — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The somber event matched the mood of a nation still reeling in the aftermath of the deadly accident in which a passenger train carrying 350 people collided with a freight train in northern Greece.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
  • This caused a number of cars from the Coromandel Express to dislodge and be thrown onto an oncoming track, where they were then struck by another passenger train.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 3 June 2023
  • Stergios Minenis, who was aboard the passenger train, described people tumbling over in the carriage and crashing into its sides.
    — Eric Sylvers, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The sleeping cabin layout is similar to the semi-private passenger train berths.
    — Geoff Whitmore, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • After smashing into the freight train, the passenger train, with 1,257 passengers sitting in reserved seats, derailed.
    — Sameer Yasir, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
  • In 1952, the ongoing snowfall is remembered for burying a passenger train near Donner Pass.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The passenger train and a freight train slammed into each other late Tuesday, crumpling carriages into twisted steel knots and forcing people to smash windows to escape.
    — Costas Kantouris and Derek Gatopoulos, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Site of the train crash An initial government report said that the Coromandel Express passenger train derailed while traveling at full speed.
    — Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 2 June 2023
  • Officers determined that the woman had been hit by an oncoming passenger train, police said in a news release.
    — Star-Telegram Staff, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 May 2024
  • The special train looks just like a regular passenger train, except for the antennas used for the communications equipment.
    — Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2023

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