page_title: Mixed train
section_title: Australia
hierarchical_section_title: Mixed train / Australia
caption_attribution_description: English: Passenger train with goods service at Floh-Seligenthal station, Thuringia, Germany. Deutsch: Personenzug mit Güterbeförderung im Bahnhof Floh-Seligenthal in Thüringen
context_page_description: A mixed train is a train that contains both passenger and freight cars or wagons. Although common in the early days of railways, by the 20th century they were largely confined to branch lines with little traffic. Typically, service was slower, because mixed trains usually involved the shunting of rolling stock at stops along the way. However, some earlier passenger expresses, which also hauled time-sensitive freight in covered goods wagons, would now be termed mixed trains. Generally, toward the end of the mixed train era, shunting at intermediate stops had significantly diminished. Nowadays, most railway passenger and freight services are administered separately.
context_section_description: In Australia, mixed trains could also be called a "car goods", "goods train with car attached", or "mixed goods". However in some countries, the latter term refers instead to a freight train carrying multiple types of freight rather a single commodity. In most states, a mixed train was technically a goods train with passenger accommodation, meaning it had lower priority over other trains and could be cancelled without notice if there were no goods to carry.
  The Victorian Railways had a class of train called a "limited through mixed" which limited the amount of goods and ran to a set timetable and would be guaranteed to run even without waiting goods.
  Forming a further type of mixed train, railmotors or railcars might haul a one or two goods wagons or a goods brake van carrying some freight.
caption: PmG mixed train, Floh-Seligenthal, Thuringia, East Germany, 1989
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