goods station
goods station noun: a railway station where freight is loaded or unloaded from ships or road vehicles and/or where goods wagons are transferred to local sidings.
Noun
goods station (plural goods stations)
- A railway station where freight is loaded or unloaded from ships or road vehicles and/or where goods wagons are transferred to local sidings.
- All through the day the collecting vans and lorries bring consignments of every description to the goods station proper, which consists of lines of rails and long platforms under cover. As fast as the packages are unloaded they are checked with the consignment notes, trundled off to weighing...1914, Ernest Protheroe, chapter 9, in The Railways of the World, London: Routledge, page 224
- However far I went I found only dingy lodging houses, small tobacconists, hoardings from which posters hung in rags, windowless warehouses, goods stations without trains, and bookshops of the sort that sell The Works of Aristotle.1945, C. S. Lewis, chapter 1, in The Great Divorce, page 13
- Synonyms:
- freight yard
Synonyms of goods station
Forms of goods station
| plural | goods stations |
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Questions about goods station
- What does goods station mean?
- Goods station means a railway station where freight is loaded or unloaded from ships or road vehicles and/or where goods wagons are transferred to local sidings.
- What part of speech is goods station?
- Goods station is a noun.
- What is the plural of goods station?
- The plural of goods station is goods stations.
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