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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a self-driven express train of one or more coaches travelling daily between two cities.
See: railiner
Quotations
1958
Mr. Herridge said he had been informed that communicable-disease patients could be carried in the baggage section of the Budd cars--or dayliners--on the CPR'S Kettle Valley run in British Columbia.
1965
Railroad enthusiasts . . . got a look at the Canadian National Railway's new dayliner Saturday.