English Dictionary

slam-door

形容詞

イギリス英語 比較不可

(UK, rail transport) 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.

日本語の意味

（英国、鉄道用語）乗客が窓越しに外側の取っ手を操作して内部から開ける、重いドアを持つ古い型式の客車のことを指す。

The museum organizes occasional trips on a restored slam-door train, where passengers still reach out of the windows to open the heavy outside handles.

博物館は、窓から手を伸ばして外側の取っ手で開ける重い扉を備えた旧式の列車を復元して、時折特別運行を行っています。

意味（1）

(UK, rail transport) 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.

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.