car vs carriage
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Could be "train wagons".
Maybe simply "trains".
"Locomotive" could be the engine of a train.
Could be "train wagons".
Maybe simply "trains".
"Locomotive" could be the engine of a train.
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In BrE "carriages" for a passenger train and "wagons" for a freight train.
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Do we say "a car" for the connected parts of a train?
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Not usually in BrE. Except perhaps "the dining car".
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Other countries?
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cable car
a vehicle which hangs from and is moved by a cable (= thick strong, usually inter-twinned wire) and transports people up steep slopes
In the US "cable car" is a vehicle on a cable railway
We say car for a road vehicle. (Not for a railway vehicle.)
cable car
a vehicle which hangs from and is moved by a cable (= thick strong, usually inter-twinned wire) and transports people up steep slopes
In the US "cable car" is a vehicle on a cable railway
We say car for a road vehicle. (Not for a railway vehicle.)
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In the US it`s simply a car or a railroad car. As in BrE, we also say dining car.
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Thanks for your "very good explanation" that means the contrary.:-D
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But in both countries we say " a comparment"? What preposition do we use in the context "a first class compartment on a car or in a car"?
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The first class compartment is in the railway car. In the US, I believe that we don`t have classes on trains, but rather different modes of travel, such as sleeping cars (which have individual compartments) and coach (where you sit for the entire trip.) There may be others, but I haven`t been on a long distance train in the US since I was drafted into the army in 1966 and traveled from N.Y. to Columbia, South Carolina on a train that I would characterize as third class.
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