Definition of "way-train" [way-train]

• A train which stops at all or most of the stations on the line over which it passes; an accommodation train. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The hordes of the way-train were not altogether new to Carol."
• "In the sense of human brotherhood which the fact inspired I was not so lonely as I might have been, when we resumed our gloomy progress, with all that punctilio which custom demands of a Spanish way-train."
• "But we were nervous because we had already suffered from the delays of people at the last hotel where our motor-bus stopped to take up passengers; they lingered so long over lunch that we were sure we should miss the Sud – Express, and we did not see how we could live in Escorial till the way-train started; yet for all their delays we reached the station in time and more."