Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stopping train
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I would be on my bike for the rest of my life, stuck on the stopping train to nowhere.
▪ The speed of change which Professor Hoskins deplored is well brought out here by his remarks about a stopping train through Rutland.
Usage examples of "stopping train".
He bought another return to Basingstoke and caught a stopping train that left fifteen minute later.
At Exeter she had to wait an hour and then get onto the slow, stopping train that would take her on to Cornwall.
It was cancelled so he took some wonderful stopping train, a special for the football match, which called at every other lamp-post, and each time Jim reckoned he could pick out the hoods.
A small, moist, green wind blew the petals of the scattering cherry blossom through the open windows of the stopping train.