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Hospital train   /hˈɑspˌɪtəl treɪn/   Listen
Hospital train

noun
1.
A military train built to transport wounded troops to a hospital.





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"Hospital train" Quotes from Famous Books



... flashing here and there, and I could see stretcher-bearers hurrying to and fro. Then I was carried into a hospital train. ...
— Over The Top • Arthur Guy Empey
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... A hospital train had come in, a British train. The twilight had deepened into night. Under the flickering arc lamps, in that cold and dismal place, the train came to a quiet stop. Almost immediately it began to unload. A door ...
— Kings, Queens And Pawns - An American Woman at the Front • Mary Roberts Rinehart
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... were no more successful. The employees listened to his interrogations with a distraught air. He could come back again; just now they were taken up with the announcement that another hospital train was on the way. The great battle was still going on near Paris. They had to improvise lodgings for the new consignment of mutilated humanity. In order to pass away the time until his return, Desnoyers went back to the garden near ...
— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
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... was put aboard a hospital train and taken to LeTreport, where I was assigned to Lady Murray's Hospital, another B. R. C. place. It had been, before the war, The Golf Hotel, one of the many splendid seaside hotels that have been converted into hospitals. Here, again, I was royally treated. ...
— The Emma Gees • Herbert Wes McBride
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... talking of the war. Else I'll go off to bed. Here we are at last with two charming ladies, when it's been an age since we've seen a face that isn't covered with stubble, and you still keep talking of that damned shooting. Good Lord, when I was in the hospital train and the first girl came in with a white cap on her curly light hair, I'd have liked to hold her hand and just keep looking and looking at her. Upon my word of honor, Sister Engelberta, after a while the shooting gets to be a nuisance. The lice ...
— Men in War • Andreas Latzko
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