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Amoney train is one or morerailcars used to collectcash fare revenue from stations on asubway system and return it to a central location for processing. This train was typically used to carrymoney bags guarded bytransit police to deter robberies.
On theNew York City Subway, a "money train" was first mentioned in 1905, a year after the system opened.[1] Their trains were converted from subway cars that have been removed from passenger service. This has since been discontinued, with the last service running in January 2006.[1] Two of the cars are preserved by theNew York Transit Museum inBrooklyn.
The use of a train was necessary because of difficulties in getting to and from stations using over-street transport, and because, since the subway reaches every station, the rail system itself can be used to collect money fromticket machines. The 1995 Americancrime thriller filmMoney Train depicts a robbery of such a train.
Singapore'sMass Rapid Transit system introduced a money train (cash train) where a specially modified Driving Trailer car is coupled to a regular 4 car C151 train when the system was commissioned in 1987. Used to transfer cash trolleys from stations to a counting facility atBishan Depot,[2] the increased use of stored value tickets resulted in the train being decommissioned in 2007.
TheWashington Metro system continues to use money trains as of July 2025.[citation needed]
TheLight Rail inHong Kong uses money trains, which are regular passenger trains taken out of service, to collect fares from the ticket vending machines.[3]
InAustralia, the reverse procedure occurred with theNew South Wales Government Railways fleet ofpay buses. A small self-powered railcar, they were used to deliverpay packets containing cash to employees at remote railway stations, as well as maintenance gangs working on the tracks. This operation remained in service until the 1980s when it was supplanted by electronic payments.[4]
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