多た層そう建だて列れっ車しゃ

noun

multilayer train; train formed by joining sections with different origins/destinations

Technical railway term. Refers to a single train that is formed by coupling two or more trainsets that started from different origins or will split to different destinations. Not a double-decker train.

• 多た層そう建だて列れっ車しゃは、途と中ちゅうの駅えきで分ぶん割かつされることがあります。

  A multilayer train may be split at an intermediate station.

• この多た層そう建だて列れっ車しゃは、前まえの4両りょうが東とう京きょう行いき、後うしろの4両りょうが新しん宿じゅく行いきです。

  In this multilayer train, the front four cars are bound for Tokyo and the rear four for Shinjuku.