[f. TRAIN sb.1, in various senses + GUARD sb.] † a. A train of attendants forming a guard. † b. A body of men in charge of the train of an army. c. The guard of a railway train.
1650. Fuller, Pisgah, IV. v. § 32. Pharaohs daughter with her feminine train-guard.
1760. MS. Audit Office (Bodl.), 281/125. 7 d, Major Oughton and others for the Train Guard at the Battle of Culloden.
1897. Pall Mall G., 19 May, 4/2 [In Denmark]. The all-pervading militarism … of Germany has disappeared; the train-guard is no longer an exaggerated drill-sergeant.
