guard's van

noun

1. US and Canadian equivalent: caboose. railways the van in which the guard travels, usually attached to the rear of a train

Example Sentences

P stands still, as the carriages and finally the red tail-light on the guard’s van slowly pass her and vanish into the night.

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On her return from Rome, she and her wheelchair had to travel in the guard's van on the train back to her home town in Preston.

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Something with a peaked or rounded top should be chosen; the ventilation being safer in this, as flat-sided and flat-topped packages may be so crowded upon with others in a guard's van as to suffocate the inmate.

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But half-a-crown drove it back, and I sprang into the guard's van on his very heels.

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Mark it down on your cuff, Lawrence, that you once caught a train with five minutes to spare, instead of leisurely strolling up after it was already on the move, and having to scramble into the guard’s van.”

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