Meaning of goods yard | Babel Free

Definitions

An area associated with a railway station where freight is loaded and unloaded.

Examples

“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.”

“After marching into a goods yard beyond the station and halting beside a train, the manacled prisoners were pushed into cattle-trucks […]”

“Here the line is joined by the Colne Valley branch, and both tracks are carried into Haverhill station upon a high embankment from which the town can be seen on the south side. The twin tracks, after traversing a scissors crossover, become the down and up roads through the station, which possesses an extensive goods yard.”

“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.”

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