goods yard

English

Goods yard in Braintree, Essex, UK

Noun

goods yard (plural goods yards)

  1. An area associated with a railway station where freight is loaded and unloaded.
    • 1901, Rudyard Kipling, Kim, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., Chapter 2, p. 41:
      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.
    • 1933, James Hilton, Knight without Armour, London: Ernest Benn, Part 2:
      After marching into a goods yard beyond the station and halting beside a train, the manacled prisoners were pushed into cattle-trucks []
    • 1978, Eva Figes, Little Eden: A Child at War, New York: Persea Books, Chapter 12, p. 124:
      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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