Commuter rail, or suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates within a metropolitan area, connecting commuters to a central city from adjacent suburbs or commuter towns.
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Etymology 1. From Middle English trayne (“train”), from Old French train (“a delay, a drawing out”), from traïner (“to pull out, to draw”), from Vulgar Latin *tragino, from *trago, from Latin traho (“to pull, to draw”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *treg?- (“to pull, draw, drag”).