goods yard

American  

noun

British.

1. a railway freight yard.

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Etymology

Origin of goods yard

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

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 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 Foreman Shunter took the boy in his arms and carried him away from the goods yard as he would have carried a baby.

From The Sailor by Snaith, J. C.

But all he saw upon his arrival was an untidy goods yard, littered with military stores, and peopled by British privates in the déshabille affected by the British Army when engaged in menial tasks.

From All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand by Hay, Ian