a. [WEST adv.] Travelling to the west or in a westerly direction; connected with travel in this direction.
Orig. U.S. of railway-trains. In more general use from c. 1900, freq. of Transatlantic steamers.
1860. Lawrence (KS) Republican, 7 Sept., 2/4. Shortly after landing in Missouri, Gov. S[eward]. was comfortably seated in the west-bound train of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad.
1881. Chicago Times, 12 March. The west-bound express was laid up all night at Kearney.
1889. Pall Mall Gaz., 3 Sept., 2/3. He will at once give you a west-bound ticket to Chicago.
1891. C. Roberts, Adrift Amer., 67. I watched my chance … and got on a west-bound freight train.
1902. Westm. Gaz., 22 Oct., 1/3. The West-bound traveller … would choose his ’bus … along the Embankment.
