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Feb 23, 2021 · If you are referring to passenger trains consisting of passenger carriages one or more of which has an motor and at least two have control cabs so that the train can be driven in either direction the entire train is referred to as a Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) if powered by diesel or an Electic Multiple Unit (EMU) if powered by electricity.

Aug 8, 2011 · From The Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, by Robert Hendrickson:. The original version of this expression, 'on the water wagon' or 'water cart,' which isn't heard anymore, best explains the phrase.

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Jan 31, 2017 · "A shabby dew," says a man who has had twopence given him for getting a waggon-load of coals in. "A fairish dew," says another who has got a shilling and a lot of victuals away with him for the same. "A pock-arr'd dew"—being defeated in one's object; comes off the worst, and after a sorry fashion.

Mar 11, 2019 · Google Books finds an even earlier version of the rhyme in James Kendrews, The Waggon Load of Money (1820): "A man in the wilderness asked of me, How many strawberries grew in the sea? I gave him an answer the best that I …