goods-train

Scribbling a hasty note or two — one putting off the business meeting, another to Knight apologizing for not being able to see him in the evening — paying his bill, and leaving his heavier luggage to follow him by goods-train, he jumped into a cab and rattled off to the Great Western Station.

A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

So the lawyer, having to run on as far as Charteris by the goods-train, upon business, walked down to the station, where, having half-an-hour to wait, he fell into talk with the station-master, whom he also knew, and afterwards with Tom

Wylder's Hand 2003

Another tells us: -- "When Mr. BEGBIE put his question so great a stillness reigned throughout the crowded railway station that you could have heard a goods-train shunt."

Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 11, 1914 Various

For godståg (= goods-train) he substitutes frakttåg (= freight-train).

Appendix 2. Non-English Dialects in America. 7. Swedish Henry Louis 1921

My uncle told me that the engine-driver had failed to see a signal because of the fog, and our train had crashed into a goods-train.

A. V. Laider 1916

A few things for remembrance were to be sent after them by goods-train: a few books, portraits, the old grandfather's clock, whose tick-tock seemed to them to be the beating of their hearts.

Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House Romain Rolland 1905

Here the Tuttle person had assembled a goods-train of a half-dozen animals, the luggage being adjusted to their backs by himself and two assistants, all using language of the most disgraceful character throughout the process.

Ruggles of Red Gap Harry Leon Wilson 1903

As they crossed the railway-bridge a goods-train ran underneath and puffed smoke into the mare's eyes.

Tales of the Five Towns Arnold Bennett 1899

But this they could not do, for neither could the stove go by a passenger-train nor they themselves go in a goods-train.

The N�rnberg Stove 1892

Scribbling a hasty note or two -- one putting off the business meeting, another to Knight apologizing for not being able to see him in the evening -- paying his bill, and leaving his heavier luggage to follow him by goods-train, he jumped into a cab and rattled off to the Great

A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1884