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pick-up goods

pick-up goods noun: a goods train, often on a branch line but also on main lines, that serves every station and siding along its route, dropping off and picking up wagons (freight cars) and goods where required.

Noun

pick-up goods pl (plural only)

  1. (UK, dated, plural, plural-only) A goods train, often on a branch line but also on main lines, that serves every station and siding along its route, dropping off and picking up wagons (freight cars) and goods where required.
    • The working timetable shows a pick-up goods daily over each section of the main line and three times a week over the branch.1960 April, H. P. White, “The Railways of Sierra Leone”, in Railway Magazine, page 237

Questions about pick-up goods

What does pick-up goods mean?
Pick-up goods means a goods train, often on a branch line but also on main lines, that serves every station and siding along its route, dropping off and picking up wagons (freight cars) and goods where required.
What part of speech is pick-up goods?
Pick-up goods is a noun.

Words near pick-up goods in the dictionary

  1. pick-to-tote
  2. pick-to-voice
  3. pick-up
  4. pick-up game
  5. pick-up games
  6. pick-up goods
  7. pick-up joint
  8. pick-up joints
  9. pick-up line
  10. pick-up lines
  11. pick-up sticks

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