train set

See also: trainset

English

Noun

train set (plural train sets)

Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends train set.

1. A small model railroad with trains that move around the tracks by electricity (formerly by clockwork).
   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 50:

     It has its charms though. Royal Oak is like a country branch line dropped down amid the main line approaches to Paddington. It's as if two very different train sets got mixed up in the same box.

2. Alternative form of trainset.
   • 1960 December, “The Hastings Line diesel-electric multiple units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 732:

     In a review of operating experience with the Southern Region diesel-electric multiple-units on the Hastings line, read to the Institution of Locomotive Engineers in October, Mr. W. J. A. Sykes, Mechanical & Electrical Engineer of the S.R., revealed how the somehat unprepossessing appearance of these train sets came about.

References

• “train set”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• intraset, intreats, nitrates, rantiest, straiten, tainters, tartines, tertians, trainest