goods train

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The passenger service from Athens to Thessaloniki was crowded with students returning to university after a holiday for Greek Orthodox Lent when the train collided with a goods train on the same track outside Larisa.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2025

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

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

With the exception of an occasional toot-toot from a taxi and the shrill whistle of a goods train, no other sounds are to be heard.

From Byways of Ghost-Land by O'Donnell, Elliott