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- adjective UK Applied to an older kind of
passenger train with heavy doors, opened from the inside by reaching out of the window.
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Speaking of the slam-door rolling stock his company is in the process of withdrawing, he says:
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Speaking of the slam-door rolling stock his company is in the process of withdrawing, he says:
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Speaking of the slam-door rolling stock his company is in the process of withdrawing, he says:
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At the age if six I was put on a slam-door train (no corridor) with my sisters (ten and twelve) to visit with relatives in London.
Craig Murray craig 2010
MaryW commented on the word slam-door
Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (New York: Grove Press, 2011), p. 90January 12, 2016