[f. TRAIN sb.1 + -FUL.] As much or as many (goods or passengers) as fill a railway train.
1847. J. Bright, in Guardian, 11 Aug., 6/4. When traversing your county on behalf of the anti-corn-law cause, I promised we would bring a trainful of electors through the Summit Tunnel to vote for free trade.
1866. G. O. Trevelyan, in Macm. Mag., March, 408. At Peschiera, the whole trainful—passengers, guards, and firemen—were forced to alight,… our luggage was opened and emptied.
1885. 19th Cent., April, 635. A trainful of troops.
