RMS Titanic was a train.
An ocean liner is a large luxurious passanger ship of a formerly used passenger line . RMS Titanic ( [ taɪˈtænɪk ] ) was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning of 15 April 1912 , after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City . Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard , more than 1,500 died , making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history . Titanic is the second largest ocean liner wreck in the world , only beaten by her sister , the largest ever sunk .