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  • adjective UK Applied to an older kind of passenger train with heavy doors, opened from the inside by reaching out of the window.

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  • Speaking of the slam-door rolling stock his company is in the process of withdrawing, he says:

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  • Speaking of the slam-door rolling stock his company is in the process of withdrawing, he says:

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  • Speaking of the slam-door rolling stock his company is in the process of withdrawing, he says:

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  • At the age if six I was put on a slam-door train (no corridor) with my sisters (ten and twelve) to visit with relatives in London.

    Craig Murray craig 2010

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  • Under the viaduct was a slam-door of prison-grade steel. Get inside, and you walked down a mummified passage hung with half-dead horsehair mattresses.
    Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (New York: Grove Press, 2011), p. 90

    January 12, 2016