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The amount that can be transported by a train.
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On February 14, Mr. S. F. Sanders observed two trainloads of football supporters from Bolton which were conveyed to Luton by Nos. 45710, Irresistible, and 45712, Victory, respectively.
Experiments on steep inclines in the United States showed that washing the rails with a detergent to remove oil and grease resulted in a marked improvement; but conditioning the rails with a special neutralising chemical completely eliminated slipping on a bank on which it was so common as to necessitate restriction of trainloads.
A surprisingly technical question from the audience on the possibility of working coal traffic in more substantial trainloads from pit to power station elicited the answer that the N.E.R. had hopes of more circuit working with specially designed high-capacity wagons on the style of the bogie 56-tonners used for the ore traffic between Tyne Dock and Consett, [...].
A new oil traffic in block trainloads, expected to amount to 150,000 tons of refined motor spirit annually for B.R., has begun between the Shell refinery at Stanlow and a new terminal built at Hunslet East in connection with Shell-Mex and B.P.'s expansion scheme at Knostrop, Leeds....
Has anything not gone to plan? "It is not possible to send a train load of humanitarian aid without a train load of bureaucracy to go with it. We live and learn...!"
A large amount.
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You just bought yourself a trainload of trouble. I think you're now in over your head.
A shudder ran through Mr. Binnacle. Better a whole trainload of invigilators than this grotesque and solitary persecutor!
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They were peculiar people, slow. Well more backwards I think, probably a bit retarded. Well very retarded actually - the father had a few 'roos loose in the top paddock but the mother had a whole trainload.
Noun
quantity that can be carried by a train