"through train" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it to refer to a train that runs uninterruptedly or directly from one destination to another, without having to change trains. For example: "We took the through train from Vancouver to Toronto."
Your correspondent (Letters, 24 March) does not need HS2 to be built with a link to HS1 to get a through train from Crewe to Paris.
By 1858 we're running 10 mins late – no hints why from the train staff … but we catch the connection and arrive only 15 minutes later than I would have been on a through train.
For over one hundred years Dunstable had a through train to London although for most of the day local trains pottered up and down both branches, passengers changing at Dunstable North.
Thereafter, the Capitol Limited operated between Washington and Chicago as a through train, with a few cars originating in Baltimore until 1966.
The through train, however, was derailed.
After unification, through train service increased rapidly, reconnecting Berlin with all major German and European cities.
China's financial reforms are often touted as steps towards the freer movement of capital; the through-train is a bigger one than most.
Chinese officials hope the through-train will bring more professionalism to its stockmarket, which is another way of saying there are lots of derailments at present.
That will begin to change in October when the Hong Kong and Shanghai stockmarkets launch a scheme called Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect or "the through-train".
At the same time, there has been a considerable increase in buffet counters for service of light snacks and drinks and also through-train trolley service of light refreshments.
In newer very-high-speed, fixed-formation train-sets, a through-train fibre-optics transmission system concentrates data from the microprocessor controls both those of passenger car systems, such as air-conditioning and power-operated entrance doors, and those of the rear locomotive or, in the Japanese Shinkansen train-sets, the traction equipment dispersed among a proportion of its cars.
