stopping train

stopping train (plural stopping trains)

1. (rail transport) A passenger train that stops at most, if not all, of the stations on the route in the course of its journey.
   • 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 135:

     Most of the through Leicester-Birmingham workings are non-stop between Leicester and Hinckley, leaving the intermediate stations to be served by the largely hourly stopping trains between Leicester and Nuneaton.

• stopper

• “stopping train” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• “stopping train” in the Collins English Dictionary
• “stopping train” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.