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What does detrain mean?

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Verb
  1. (rail transport, intransitive) To exit from a train; to disembark
  2. (rail transport, transitive) to remove a passenger or passengers from a train; to evacuate passengers from a train.
  3. (of an athlete) to reduce one's training, particularly during the offseason, in preparation for a cycle of retraining.
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She told me that since we were late, we would only stop to detrain and board passengers, and then continue.
Now one would have to detrain and go on by road to Cairnryan.
It is a revenue run, Train 3600, but I did not observe any passengers detrain once it arrived.
It would take three days for all troops to detrain, so I sought the earliest opportunity of finding Miss Goche.
There they were to detrain and search every boat coming down from the north.
It is also possible that material stored in this manner could present a risk to employees if they have to detrain from a moving train.

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