He picked up his valise at the Avon Hotel and caught the first boat train for Germany.
He turned on his heel and stalked haughtily in the direction of the boat train.
I landed at Liverpool this morning and came down on the boat train.
That night the Prince bade me farewell and hurried off to catch the boat train.
You can catch the early boat train, and I'll send some more by to-morrow's post.
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Margaret, who had been about to leave for theboattrain, makes a casual remark to the current innkeeper about the former owner.
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It is not yet clear why theboattrainand the ballast train were on the same section.
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I regret that for operating reasons it is not possible to restore the prewar timings where there was only oneboattrain.
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Theboattrainwas travelling at speed round a sharp right-hand curve when it hit the ballast train.
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However, following the decline ofboattraintraffic, they were all stored in 1975.
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What the new passengers required were high-speed dedicatedboattrainservices.
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The derailment caused a set of points to move, diverting aboattrainto be diverted.
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The accident caused a set of points to move, diverting an approachingboattrain.
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Platform 5 was theboattrainplatform, the longest of all, which ran outside the train shed along its eastern side.
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We went on the day on theboattrain.
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Forgetting that the slow goods train was still on the up main line, the signalman accepted theboattrain, and cleared his signals for it.
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The number of passengers using the boat trains is steady, and the rail link appears to have a future.
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That being so, it is desirable in the interests of tourist traffic to maintain seat reservations on the boat trains.
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These consisted of bogie and four wheel designs, and were frequently used on boat trains.
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Boat trains had been made up of conventional coaching stock and the locomotive would run-round its train on arrival at the sea-terminal.
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