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goods yard

goods yard noun: an area associated with a railway station where freight is loaded and unloaded.

goods yard: an area associated with a railway station where freight is loaded and unloaded
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Noun

goods yard (plural goods yards)

  1. An area associated with a railway station where freight is loaded and unloaded.
    • Kim led to the fort-like railway station, black in the end of night; the electrics sizzling over the goods-yard where they handle the heavy Northern traffic.1901, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 2, in Kim, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 41
    • After marching into a goods yard beyond the station and halting beside a train, the manacled prisoners were pushed into cattle-trucks […]1933, James Hilton, Knight Without Armour, London: Ernest Benn, Part 2
    Synonyms:
    freight yard

goods yard meaning in Tamil

goods yard in Tamil

சரக்கு முற்றம், சரக்குமுற்றம்

Examples of goods yard in a sentence

  • The twin tracks, after traversing a scissors crossover, become the down and up roads through the station, which possesses an extensive goods yard.1951 September, B. D. J. Walsh, “The Sudbury and Haverhill Line, Eastern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 619:
  • At the western perimeter the old railway station with its busy goods yards has become a bleak coach terminal: no bustle, no people, just an empty space and a timetable.1978, Eva Figes, chapter 12, in Little Eden: A Child at War, New York: Persea Books, page 124:

Synonyms of goods yard

Forms of goods yard

pluralgoods yards

Questions about goods yard

What does goods yard mean?
Goods yard means an area associated with a railway station where freight is loaded and unloaded.
What is goods yard in Tamil?
Goods yard in Tamil is சரக்கு முற்றம், சரக்குமுற்றம். See Goods yard meaning in Tamil.
How do you use goods yard in a sentence?
The twin tracks, after traversing a scissors crossover, become the down and up roads through the station, which possesses an extensive goods yard.
What part of speech is goods yard?
Goods yard is a noun.
What is the plural of goods yard?
The plural of goods yard is goods yards.

Words near goods yard in the dictionary

  1. goods trucks
  2. goods van
  3. goods vans
  4. goods wagon
  5. goods wagons
  6. goods yard
  7. goods yards
  8. goods-to-person
  9. goods-to-picker
  10. Goodsall
  11. Goodsalls

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