ferry van
ferry van noun: a railway goods van intended for train ferry traffic to and from continental Europe.
Noun
ferry van (plural ferry vans)
- A railway goods van intended for train ferry traffic to and from continental Europe.
- More than one exporter had complained that ferry vans were in desperately short supply and that the B.R. fleet of 400 new vans (over 150 of which are now in service) would fall far short of immediately foreseeable requirements. [...] The solution to the exporters' demand for more stock of this...1964 January, “News and Comment: Dr. Beeching and the exporters”, in Modern Railways, page 2
- A grey morning in Tonbridge in 1977 sees No. 33208 rattle through the station with a long train of ferry vans and wagons from the train ferry at Dover.2018, Andy Gibbs, The Southern Region in the 1970s and 1980s, Amberley Publishing →ISBN https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=oK-IDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1975&lpg=PA1975&dq=%22ferry+vans%22+%22train+ferry%22&sour...
Forms of ferry van
| plural | ferry vans |
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Questions about ferry van
- What does ferry van mean?
- Ferry van means a railway goods van intended for train ferry traffic to and from continental Europe.
- What part of speech is ferry van?
- Ferry van is a noun.
- What is the plural of ferry van?
- The plural of ferry van is ferry vans.
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