goods train
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The crash saw a passenger train derail after wrongly entering into a loop track by the side of the main line and colliding with a stationary goods train that was parked there.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2023
Meanwhile, the railways said on Sunday that the Coromandel Express's engine and coaches crashed into a goods train due to a signal fault and a "change in electronic interlocking".
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2023
The train entered another line, known as the loop line, and crashed into a goods train parked there, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2023
The Coromandel Express had gone off track, hit a goods train that was parked there, and then collided with a second train coming from the opposite direction.
From Reuters • Jun. 3, 2023
I put on one side the statement of Mirfin's grandmother because her allegation that 193 trains passed her house one night might have been based on the shunting of a single goods train.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914 by Various
