Definition of "intermodal"

Boxes from Southampton: In September, GB Railfreight began a new intermodal service from Solent Stevedores to Manchester. [...] This is the third daily working GBRf offers serving Southampton and GBRf's 17th intermodal service to date; it runs five days per week.

2019 October, Steve Stubbs (photo caption), “New GBRf intermodal service”, in Modern Railways, page 20

It created inter-city and intermodal services, which were genuinely world leading. And it undeniably pushed British Railways into the modern era.

2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 49