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Train wreck at Montparnasse (October 22, 1895) by Studio Lévy and Sons

L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Auguste and Louis Lumière. It was first screened on December 28 1895 in Paris, France, and was shown to a paying audience January 6 1896.

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1. A line of connected cars or carriages pushed or pulled by one or more locomotives, especially a railroad train which travels on a set of tracks.

   We rode the train to Mumbai.

2. A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line, such as a wagon train; a caravan or procession.

   Our party formed a train at the funeral parlor before departing for the burial.

3. A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a train of events or a train of thought.
4. A series of electrical pulses.
5. A set of interconnected mechanical parts like the drive train of a car.
6. That which is drawn along, like the part of a gown which trails behind the wearer.

   The train of her bridal gown caught on a nail.

See also

• Railway music
• L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat