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goods yard

American  

noun

British.
  1. a railway freight yard.


Etymology

Origin of goods yard

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

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The photograph was taken in late 1976 on a stairway next to Rehearsals Rehearsals, which at the time was part of a rundown railway goods yard.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2018

The youth had new clothes, and his mother went to town and sold the goods, yard by yard, and was handsomely paid for them.

From The Norwegian Fairy Book by Stroebe, Clara

The works of the Wilkes Metallic Flooring Company are in the goods yard of the Midland Railway Company at West Kensington.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 by Various

The scene was the goods yard of the railway where trucks had to be loaded with great bales of forage, sacks of grain, or cases of bully and biscuit for the personnel at railhead.

From The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 by Morrison, F. L.

The men were entraining in the goods yard.

From If Winter Comes by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)

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