Slam-door

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Applied to an older kind of passenger train with heavy doors, opened from the inside by reaching out of the window to the handle on the outside. UK, not-comparable

    "At the time of the termination of the franchise, CSE was also part-way through a programme of introducing new trains to replace 622 of its oldest trains including its 558 slam-door vehicles."

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"At the time of the termination of the franchise, CSE was also part-way through a programme of introducing new trains to replace 622 of its oldest trains including its 558 slam-door vehicles."

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