parliamentary train
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parliamentary train
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In both senses, because running such trains is required by an act of Parliament.
noun parliamentary trains
- A cheap, slow public passenger train as provided for under the Railway Regulation Act 1844 (which ordered railways to run at least one train a day each way, at a cost to passengers of no more than one penny a mile, on every railway line in the country). He [Gladstone] also required the operators to run 'Parliamentary Trains' - one each day calling at every station at a fare of not more than a penny per mile for Third Class.
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A passenger train that serves a line or station very infrequently (often only once a day or once a week), allowing the train operator to effectively end the service without getting official permission to close the line.
Once a week a train leaves a London station it shouldn’t, and you have just a few weeks left to catch a ride before it stops, possibly forever. This is the Chiltern Railway’s parliamentary train service and it is both a training exercise for Chiltern drivers and a legacy of a curious quirk of railwa
Similar: parliamentary service, parliamentary
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