DCHP-3

accommodation

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

an accommodation stage or train.

Quotations

1902
Parties can therefore come to Harcourt, 37 miles from Moncton, wire the station agent at Kent Junction to procure supplies and hire guides, and go forward themselves a little later by the freight or accommodation, as may suit their convenience.
1957
There is another morning train to Halifax, a very leisurely mixed train, the unaccommodating sort of slow train which is known as an accommodation.