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Meanings of fast train in English

Russian
скорый поезд
Portuguese
trem expresso
Spanish
tren expreso
Catalan
tren exprés

Train which travels fast and makes few stops.

Related terms
скорый поезд
Synonyms
Examples for "express train"
Examples for "express train"
1
An express train was in no more danger of jumping the track.
My Year of the War / Including an Account of Experiences with th...
2
The last car of the express train was now abreast of them.
The Circus Boys on the Plains; Or, The Young Advance Agents Ahea...
3
And then it hit him with the force of an express train.
The bourne objective
4
And it has this fantastic effect of an express train picking up speed.
The Irish Times
5
The express train, credited with being the first to break the 100 m.p.h.
The Irish Times
Usage of fast train in English
1
He is driving over to Caanan to-day to catch the fast train.
The City and the World and Other Stories
2
Now this man Denver leaves London by a fast train for Liverpool.
God and My Neighbour
3
The next morning they left Jersey City by the latest fast train out.
The Song of the Lark
4
Once in so often a fast train stopped, if properly flagged.
A Splendid Hazard
5
You can get up easily in a car or by a fast train.
The Making of a Soul
6
He is now banned from travelling by plane or fast train.
News.com.au
7
You can argue that a fast train doesn't necessarily mean a fast trip.
Wired
8
Some of them rumbled along like a fast train hittin a down grade.
"Same old Bill, eh Mable!"
9
So you'll be catching the fast train back to Pelles, then.
The Slab
10
There is a train out of Chicago at seven o'clock, a fast train.
Windy McPherson's Son
11
The two hours in a fast train did me good.
Five Nights: A Novel
12
In the morning I took a fast train to Geneva.
Neither here nor there: travels in europe
13
The choice was a fast train to Hamburg or a slow one to Rome.
The Irish Times
14
We are on a fast train to the twentieth century.
The crimson petal and the white
15
A fast train drew into Albany, on the New York Central, from the West.
The Drums of Jeopardy
16
It was a fast train, yet the ride seemed slow.
The Lone Star Ranger: A Romance of the Border
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Translations for fast train
Portuguese
trem expresso
Fast train through the time
Fast train across language varieties
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