"like a train" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1949, Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell, Karamojo safari, page 85:",
          "text": "I could not get a shot in. They turned in my direction and came like a train. I stopped the first and the others spilled round him at a frightful speed. I was in the eddy of the first beast, as it were. I got in another shot at an angle behind the ear and down he went.",
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          "ref": "1994, Sheila Garrigue, The Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito, →ISBN, page 17:",
          "text": "\"That tide's coming in like a train, and if the Raider breaks up, the currents will drag them under!\" Her voice was desperate. \"I don't see 'ow anyone can get to them!\" It was true.",
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          "ref": "2005, Alan Ball, Playing Extra Time, →ISBN, page 221:",
          "text": "Aspinall was suspended for the first three games but we started like a train. We took ten points from the first twelve, beating Leeds 4—0 at home with Hilaire and Blake coming back, and we went to the top of the league.",
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        "With unstoppable momentum."
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        "(simile, UK) With unstoppable momentum."
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