Definition of "trainload"

trainload

noun
plural trainloads
1. (rail transport) The amount that can be transported by a train.
  Quotations
  A surprisingly technical question from the audience on the possibility of working coal traffic in more substantial trainloads from pit to power station elicited the answer that the N.E.R. had hopes of more circuit working with specially designed high-capacity wagons on the style of the bogie 56-tonners used for the ore traffic between Tyne Dock and Consett, [...].
  1961 April, “Talking of Trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 195
  A new oil traffic in block trainloads, expected to amount to 150,000 tons of refined motor spirit annually for B.R., has begun between the Shell refinery at Stanlow and a new terminal built at Hunslet East in connection with Shell-Mex and B.P.'s expansion scheme at Knostrop, Leeds....
  1962 November, “News in Brief”, in Modern Railways, page 306
  Has anything not gone to plan? "It is not possible to send a train load of humanitarian aid without a train load of bureaucracy to go with it. We live and learn...!"
  2022 April 20, Tony Streeter, Paul Clifton, “Relief train from the UK takes aid to Ukraine”, in RAIL, number 955, page 29
2. (by extension) A large amount.
  Quotations
  A shudder ran through Mr. Binnacle. Better a whole trainload of invigilators than this grotesque and solitary persecutor!
  1926, Gerald William Bullett, The Baker's Cart: And Other Tales, page 164
  They were peculiar people, slow. Well more backwards I think, probably a bit retarded. Well very retarded actually - the father had a few 'roos loose in the top paddock but the mother had a whole trainload.
  2012, Mary Seaton, Tales From The Sand Hills, page 47