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luggage van

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noun

  1. US and Canadian name: baggage car.  a railway carriage used to transport passengers' luggage, bicycles, etc

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The special train included two saloon cars, a sleeping car, and a luggage van.

From Froth by Palacio Vald?s, Armando

The wheels of the luggage van at the end had come off, and the rest of the train had been dragged off the line gradually, the last carriages first.

From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.

They were in a box, which was put in the luggage van and lost. 

From Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years by Various

It would only be the fare," Noël answered; "and I'd go third, or even in a cattle-truck, or a luggage van.

From New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune by Nesbit, E. (Edith)

I managed to induce an official to allow me to get into the luggage van; and thus, having started from Paris as a bullock, I reached Amiens at twelve o'clock as a carpet-bag.

From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Labouchere, Henry

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