walk-through

See also: walk through and walkthrough

English

The walk-through interior of a Milan Metro train.

Alternative forms

• walkthrough

Etymology

Deverbal from walk through.

Adjective

walk-through (not comparable)

1. That can be walked through
2. (rail transport) Of passenger carriages in a train, having no doors in gangway connections between the carriages, often in combination with longitudinal seating, creating a "see-through" effect through the train.
   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 277:

     The new trains will also be fully 'walk-through', with no carriage end-doors. Travelling on them is like riding on a sinuous, moving corridor. It's less claustrophobic than the old arrangement, but now you can no longer choose the carriage not occupied by the declaiming loony.

   • 2023 February 22, Paul Stephen, “TfL reveals first of new B23s for Docklands Light Railway”, in RAIL, number 977, page 12:

     Unlike the older trains, the new units have walk-through carriages and longitudinal rather than transverse seating.

Noun

walk-through (plural walk-throughs)

1. Alternative form of walkthrough

References

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