night-train

On a trip back to Rome one evening last month from Bolzano near the Austrian border, I booked my night-train ticket and had just enough time to set off through porticoed streets to eat roast duck, apple sauce and red cabbage at a trattoria, surrounded by German-speaking Italians laughing and knocking back tall glasses of beer.

Last train to Sicily 2012

But more than 20,000 night-train regulars and aficionados were incensed, signing a petition to save the routes as 800 guards and staff were laid off.

Last train to Sicily 2012

Now we just need to figure out how to night-train him and we'll be set.

Archive 2006-01-01 2006

Now we just need to figure out how to night-train him and we'll be set.

Small Milestones 2006

Also, down among the wheels, of the man with the sledge-hammer, ringing the axles of the fast night-train; against whom the oxen have a misgiving that he is the man with the pole-axe who is to come by-and-by, and so the nearest of them try to get back, and get a purchase for a thrust at him through the bars.

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

He had learned, he said, that there was a night-train up to London, and he thought that he would return to town by that.

The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

He desired to go immediately to Rome; he would have liked to go alone, in the night-train.

The Portrait of a Lady 2003

The work performed in a railway post-office on a night-train differs somewhat from that on a day-train, yet maintaining the same general principle of distribution.

The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 1, January, 1884 Various

These we must leave, and prepare for the return journey on the night-train, feeling grateful that our busy fellow-travelers are to have an opportunity to refresh themselves.

The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 1, January, 1884 Various

"When you go to London, you must go from Glasgow or Edinburgh in a night-train, and fall fast asleep, and in the morning you will find yourself in London, without having seen anything."

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various