autocoach
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English
Etymology
From auto- (“self-propelled”) + coach.[1]
Noun
autocoach (plural autocoaches)
- (rail transport) An unpowered railway coach with a driving cab at one end, used in a push-pull train in conjunction with a locomotive or other powered vehicle.
- 1979 August, Michael Harris, “A line for all reasons: the North Yorkshire Moors Railway”, in Railway World, page 415:
- It is hoped to feature the historic vehicles to be found on the line in a future article, so that full justice may be done to the painstaking work of renovation on many of them, such as the North Eastern Railway Coach Group's NER autocoach No 3453.
Synonyms
References
- ^ “auto-, comb. form2”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
