boat train

American  

noun

1. a train scheduled to carry passengers to or from a landing point.

   The boat train to Paris was waiting at Cherbourg.

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boat train British  

noun

1. a train scheduled to take passengers to or from a particular ship

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Etymology

Origin of boat train

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

Monochrome images taken in 1973 show London Victoria railway station frozen in time - an era of large sideburns and public lockers, platform tickets and boat trains to France and Belgium.

From BBC

I had a boat train to catch with a week's mail stories, and only half of them written.

From Literature

Beardsley was equally au fait, regularly taking the boat train to Paris.

From The Guardian

He ­visited Calais on the boat trains of the South Eastern Railway, which he blessed “for realising the Arabian Nights in these prose days”.

From Newsweek

They took the boat train from Charing Cross.

From Project Gutenberg