goods train

Historical Examples

• A goods-train had come in ten minutes before, for which he had had to turn the points, and he never turned them back again.

  Johnny Ludlow. First Series

  Mrs. Henry Wood

• The Rob Roy was therefore sent by itself in a goods-train, the very first separation between us for three months.

  A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe on Rivers and Lakes of Europe

  John Macgregor

• But this they could not do, for neither could the stove go by a passenger train nor they themselves go in a goods-train.

  Famous Stories Every Child Should Know

  Various

• As they crossed the railway-bridge a goods-train ran underneath and puffed smoke into the mare's eyes.

  Tales of the Five Towns

  Arnold Bennett