Sentence examples for goods van from inspiring English sources
noun
An enclosed railway freight car, especially one with a sliding door
They rustle sheep, rob a sporting goods van to equip their football team with strips, make away with the grass from the bowling green of (naturally) a Conservative club.
They rustle sheep, rob a sporting goods van to equip their football team with strips, make away with the grass from the bowling green of (naturally) a Conservative club.
The remains of several other coaches and Goods Van 4 are in storage awaiting reconstruction.
"At first the prisoners were transported by train and in goods vans.
This visualization shows products that are likely to be exported by countries that export Parts of railway or tramway locomotives or rolling-stock.. Railway or tramway goods vans and wagons, not self-propelled.
No 34 Robert Mitchum 1917-97 Before Mitchum was two years old, his father, a blue-collar railroad worker, was crushed to death between two goods vans and through much of the Thirties he rode the rods around Depression America as an itinerant labourer, doing some boxing and serving a stretch on a Deep South chain gang for vagrancy.
The manner of goods delivery demonstrated in Table 8 would suggest logistics delivery in small parcel vans and light goods vehicles, and indeed previous surveys have shown 82% of all delivery vehicles to the campus to be light goods vans [5].
At the south end were two bay platforms, between platforms 5 and 6, used for short trains and goods vans.
The goods vans used the same underframe, and were fitted with double sliding doors on each side.
The 1927 bogie goods vans were originally fitted with heavy diagonal wooden cross braces at each end, but these were later replaced with single diagonal angle-iron braces.
New operating procedures required that coffins be carried in a separate carriage from other cargo; as regular services to Brookwood station used electric multiple unit trains which did not have goods vans, coffins for Brookwood had to be shipped to Woking and then carried by road for the last part of the journey, or a special train had to be chartered.
