guard's van

British  

noun

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

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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.

From The Guardian

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.

From BBC

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

Good-by, Lawrence!” and they sprang on to the step of the guard’s van and rode the short distance of railway to the Parsonage garden, leaving Lawrence to go home in the most unenviable frame of mind imaginable, which he later vented upon the household generally in his cold and cutting fashion, regardless of the fact that he was damping every one’s Christmas.

From Project Gutenberg