rolling stock

noun

1. the wheeled vehicles of a railroad, including locomotives, freight cars, and passenger cars.

rolling stock

noun

1. the wheeled vehicles collectively used on a railway, including the locomotives, passenger coaches, freight wagons, guard's vans, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of rolling stock¹

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

It was the rolling stock that demanded the most urgent attention—engines, carriages and wagons and especially carriages.

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Hospital trains they could improvise out of what rolling stock remained to them.

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The rolling stock at that time was as light as the signals were haphazard.

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Stocks of stores, fittings and plant shall be handed over under the same conditions as the rolling-stock.

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Here was a great deal of rolling-stock—scores of cars and many engines.

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