non-corridor

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ corridor.

Adjective

non-corridor (not comparable)

1. Not of or relating to a corridor.
2. (rail transport, dated) Of a train or railway coach, not having a corridor running the length of the coach providing access to the passenger compartments; each compartment would have an outside door on each side.

   No non-corridor coaching stock remains in normal service.

   • 1961 March, “Motive Power Miscellany”, in Trains Illustrated, page 180:

     Because of the transfer of some multiple-units to the Great Eastern line to make good the latter's deficiency in North-East London since the troubles with G.E.C. electrical equipment, a number of local services on the Manchester-Crewe line have lately been worked with locomotive-hauled non-corridor stock of G.E. Line origin.

Alternative forms

• noncorridor

References

• “non-corridor”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.