parliamentary train

Noun

 * 1)  Originally a requirement in the  for railways to run at least one train a day each way, at a cost to passengers of no more than one penny a mile, on every railway line in the country. Presently the term is used for passenger trains that serve a line or station only once a day or week to avoid the cost of applying for closure.
 * 2) * 1885,, , Act II, in The Mikado, and Other Plays, New York: Modern Library, 1917, p. 42,
 * The idiot who, in railway carriages, / Scribbles on window panes, / We only suffer / To ride on a buffer / In Parliamentary trains.
 * The idiot who, in railway carriages, / Scribbles on window panes, / We only suffer / To ride on a buffer / In Parliamentary trains.