train mile

train mile (plural train miles)

1. (dated, rail transport) A unit used in estimating railway running expenses, etc.: the total number of miles run by all the trains of a railroad, or system of railroads, as within a given time, or for a given expenditure.

   Coordinate terms: bus mile, plane mile

• mile run

• “train”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “train mile”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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