The standard British English term for a passenger vehicle on a train, equivalent to the American railroad car. In the UK, railway carriage specifically implies a passenger car rather than freight stock, though loosely it can mean any rail vehicle. The distinction between carriage and car is a classic transatlantic lexical difference.
The railway carriage was stuffy and overheated, so she cracked the window despite the noise.
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(UK, rail) A railroad car for passengers.
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(broadly) Any railroad car.
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