Sentence examples for excursion trains from inspiring English sources

The toilets were once urgently needed to relieve the pressure on bladders from all those crates of ale consumed aboard excursion trains without corridors.

"Long before the midnight excursion trains were due to leave, the assembly hall of the Central Station was in an uproar.

He then joined Union News, one of Garfield's competitors, and was made a "train butcher," selling candy, drinks and sundries on excursion trains to Atlantic City.

Mob justice was carried out against men, women and entire families, in a kind of participatory public theater that featured picnicking, trophy collecting and "excursion" trains that brought in spectators.

"We are aware of the groundswell of public support for better trains in this country," said James E. Coston, a Chicago lawyer who managed a program of chartering weekend excursion trains from Amtrak.

The celebrations, replete with picnics, speeches and cornet bands, took place in other East Tennessee communities like Newport and Knoxville, but the event in Andrew Johnson's hometown remained the biggest draw for years, as special excursion trains carried African-Americans from Knoxville to Greeneville well into the 1880s.

But enter another great British invention – the seaside excursion train.

Writer went from Harrisburg, Pa .with Frimbo on an excursion train pulled by a steam engine.

The nearby town of Lincoln caters to the tourist trade, with many small, informal eating places, purveyors of crafts and antiques and a pleasant 80-minute ride along the Pemigewasset River on the Hobo Railroad, an excursion train.

It's not the closest beach to my hometown, but it's the one where everyone has always gone — a migratory pattern rooted deep in history, by a weekend excursion train along a potato-train line that hasn't run in almost a century.

An accident of a most extraordinary and terrific character, but, fortunate to say, unattended by any fatal results took place yesterday evening at the London terminus of the Great Northern Railway, King's Cross, to a return excursion train, conveying passengers from Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Huddersfield, and other large towns in the North of England.