rolling stock
the wheeled vehicles of a railroad, including locomotives, freight cars, and passenger cars.
Origin of rolling stock
1- Also stock.
Words Nearby rolling stock
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How to use rolling stock in a sentence
It was the rolling stock that demanded the most urgent attention—engines, carriages and wagons and especially carriages.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowHospital trains they could improvise out of what rolling stock remained to them.
The Amazing Interlude | Mary Roberts RinehartThe rolling stock at that time was as light as the signals were haphazard.
The Story of the Cambrian | C. P. GasquoineStocks of stores, fittings and plant shall be handed over under the same conditions as the rolling-stock.
Here was a great deal of rolling-stock—scores of cars and many engines.
Through Siberia and Manchuria By Rail | Oliver George Ready
British Dictionary definitions for rolling stock
the wheeled vehicles collectively used on a railway, including the locomotives, passenger coaches, freight wagons, guard's vans, etc
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