The word "carriages" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word "carriages" to refer to the vehicles that were used in the past to transport people or goods, or to large four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicles, or to the part of a train that carries passengers. Example: "Passengers were crowded together in the packed carriages of the train."
Broccoli, however, refused to trim the number of carriages to be used in a train chase, and insisted certain scenes be shot in Rome rather than London, despite inflated costs.
Witnesses described hearing a "huge sound, like a car crash" when the carriages came together on the Smiler attraction on Tuesday afternoon.
Even the dead were doing it, with their plumed horses and carriages of glass.
Meanwhile, another British-based manufacturer received an order boost on Friday when the Department for Transport announced that Bombardier's Derby factory will build 40 new carriages for the London-to-Brighton Southern rail franchise.
The DfT added that it will support a request by Southern for a further 116 carriages with the option for an extra 140.
The carriages rattled with engine vibration and looked shoddy and cheap – evidence that northern England, which invented railway travel, has some of the worst rail infrastructure in Europe, now being put right only slowly and belatedly, despite all the talk of developing a "northern powerhouse".
Balch, from Leyland in Lancashire, was among four people who suffered serious leg injuries after two carriages on the Smiler rollercoaster ride collided at the Staffordshire theme park on Tuesday.
Once on the trains, the misery continued, with passengers tweeting pictures of packed carriages with people standing crowded together in aisles.
The train pulled into Penzance and we walked up the platform, past the non-sleeper carriages from which crumpled people emerged, gingerly rubbing their locked backs.
These carriages, named after the Tsarist prime minister who introduced them in 1906, have been used for over a century to transport prisoners to penal colonies, many in the remote geographical margins.
Each will be formed of two or four carriages, while all eight stations on the line will be unmanned to keep running costs to an absolute minimum.
