coasting

Glory be to God, all sublunary coastings will soon be over. Yet a little while, and we shall get into an eternal harbour.

Avanti West Coast has introduced the use of coasting with its Pendolino fleet, in an effort to keep disruption during overhead line equipment failures to a minimum. … The Class 390s coasted for three miles without power between Harrow & Wealdstone and Wembley Central, running under damaged OLE.