(rail transport, collectively) passenger-carrying railway coaches or (less commonly) multiple units. Contrasted with locomotives, freight wagons and engineering vehicles.

The coachman's seat (on a horse-drawn vehicle)

plural of stage-coach

(Britain) A rail coach on which unnecessary noise is discouraged.

a coach (compartment) of an accommodation train

Synonym of coaching inn

plural of coach inn

simple past tense and past participle of stage-coach

present participle of stage-coach

(rail transport) A powered railway vehicle, designed for passenger transport, capable to pull (or push) other railroad cars (compared to a railcar which only consists of a single railway vehicle with a driver's cab at both ends).