WordNet
n. a military train built to transport wounded troops to a hospital
Wikipedia
A hospital train is a railway train with carriages equipped for the provision of healthcare. Historically this has ranged from trains equipped to transport wounded soldiers, with basic nursing and first aid facilities on board, to fully equipped mobile medical centres, sometimes including operating theatres and nursing wards.
Usage examples of "hospital train".
With this in mind, she got a job as a nurse on a hospital train going to Mezo-Laborch, on the Hungarian border, the last address Pasha had given her.
I was put in a proper hospital train with real bunks and large windows out of which you could see, or rather those in the middle bunk could.
The railroad yard was a desert now, except for a hospital train marked with red crosses-on a siding far, far away.
Suddenly fire broke out-in one of the carriages of a hospital train, right by the ammunition train.
She had presumably slipped away from the group opposite and her intention was obviously to make a bid for freedom by riding the rods under the hospital train when it pulled out.
If the hospital train did not move soon, then every sick man in the cars would be dead, and so the Reverend Starbuck dis-covered an engineer colonel who appeared to possess some authority over the railroad and of whom he demanded to know when the trains would be cleared north.
Most of the Navy and Marine Corps personnel aboard were transferred immediately to a hospital train for transportation to the Navy hospital in San Diego.
Once in the very first weeks of the war, before everyone had been evacuated from the surface, they had seen a hospital train discharging the wounded, people who had been showered with sleet.
You'll only be in Katmandu a day or two-until the hospital train leaves for Calcutta.
You'll only be in Katmandu a day or twountil the hospital train leaves for Calcutta.
Picked up by a passing ambulance wagon and treated, somewhat roughly, at a dressing station, they bribe their way onto a hospital train going to the rear.
Mearigher's casualty report, delivered by courier the day before had been bad enough, but to actually see the remnant of Mearigher's army with its hospital train this morning had been powerfully sobering.