slip coach

English

Noun

slip coach (plural slip coaches)

(rail transport) A coach at the end of a long-distance train which carries passengers for an intermediate destination and is decoupled or "slipped" and left behind. (In bygone times the decoupling was done on the move; the rest of the train did not stop.)

Synonyms

slip carriage

Translations

coach at the end of a long-distance train which carries passengers for an intermediate destination

Irish: cóiste inscoite m

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