hospital train

noun

1. a military train equipped to transport wounded troops to a hospital.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hospital train¹

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

On Saturday a government official also said that the country sent a hospital train that will pick up those wounded in the war in Mostyska, in western Ukraine, and bring them to Warsaw for treatment.

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He adds that this is not unusual for the railways, which already runs several “special” trains, from luxury trains to exhibition trains to a hospital train, complete with operation theatres.

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A hospital train has arrived and the wounded fit to be moved are being selected.

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The hospital trains its own vision screeners, most of them young women; a separate program trains primary schoolteachers to test their students’ sight using eye charts.

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Their success has been mirrored in other hospital trains in China and in South Africa.

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