goods train
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of goods train
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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The crash saw a passenger train derail after wrongly entering into a loop track by the side of the main line and colliding with a stationary goods train that was parked there.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2023
The goods train was stationary on a different track.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2023
The train entered another line, known as the loop line, and crashed into a goods train parked there, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2023
The Coromandel Express had gone off track, hit a goods train that was parked there, and then collided with a second train coming from the opposite direction.
From Reuters ● Jun. 3, 2023
It was on a November morning in 1861 that a goods train leaving Newtown for Welshpool, called at Abermule, where they picked up three wagons and some water.
From The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway by C. P. (Charles Penrhyn) Gasquoine
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