How to Use passenger train in a Sentence

passenger train

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Before that, a landslide in April 2023 below the city’s historic Casa Romantica, suspended passenger train traffic for about a month.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
• Officials said Sunday an error in the electronic signaling system was to blame for sending a passenger train jammed with workers and students into a head-on crash with a freight train.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 4 June 2023
• Demonstrations were also reported in Larissa, near the site of the crash, and in Thessaloniki, the passenger train’s destination.
  — Iliana Magra, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• Multiple cars derailed and at least three burst into flames following the collision, which sent the passenger train into a field next to the tracks near a gorge about 235 miles north of Athens, The Associated Press reported.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2023
• The passenger train was traveling between Athens and Thessaloniki, two cities popular with tourists.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 1 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024