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box wagons

box wagons is the plural of box wagon.

Meaning of box wagon

Noun

box wagon (plural box wagons)

  1. (UK) A large high-sided box-shaped open wagon mounted on two four-wheel bogies, similar to a North American gondola car.
    • Greenbrier has completed production of the first JNA-X Box Wagon prototype in Romania. It forms part of an agreement for 50 new box wagons announced in March between the manufacturer, Porterbrook and GB Railfreight.2022 September 7, “Network News: Box Wagon prototype ready for the UK”, in RAIL, number 965, page 22
  2. Synonym of box van; a roofed goods wagon.
    • The filled mail bags leave in a continuous stream to be loaded on the train of box wagons at the L.N.E.R. station at Nottingham (London Road), of which we reproduce an illustration at page 95. […] The train takes 300 bags of mail to a box wagon. Each bag weighs about 56 lb. and contains an average...1945 March and April, “Army Post Office Mail Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 74
    Synonyms:
    box van

Questions about box wagons

What is box wagons the plural of?
Box wagons is the plural of box wagon.

Words near box wagons in the dictionary

  1. box turtles
  2. box up
  3. box van
  4. box vans
  5. box wagon
  6. box wagons
  7. box wine
  8. box wines
  9. box zither
  10. box zithers
  11. box-and-whisker plot

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