boat train

noun

a train scheduled to carry passengers to or from a landing point.
The boat train to Paris was waiting at Cherbourg.

boat train

noun

a train scheduled to take passengers to or from a particular ship

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Word History and Origins

Origin of boat train¹

First recorded in 1880–85

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Monochrome images taken in 1973 show London Victoria railway station frozen in time - an era of large sideburns and public lockers, platform tickets and boat trains to France and Belgium.

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I had a boat train to catch with a week's mail stories, and only half of them written.

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Beardsley was equally au fait, regularly taking the boat train to Paris.

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He visited Calais on the boat trains of the South Eastern Railway, which he blessed “for realising the Arabian Nights in these prose days”.

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They took the boat train from Charing Cross.

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boat-tailed grackle boatwright

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