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
At least 288 people were killed and over 800 injured in Friday's accident in Odisha state, involving two passenger trains and a goods train.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 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 goods train was stationary; the other two trains were running.”
From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2023
It is worthy of notice how locomotion in all ages seems to have classified itself into what we now know as passenger and goods train, saloon and steerage.
From Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King by Kingston, Alfred