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pick-up goods en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (UK, dated, plural, plural-only) A goods train, often on a branch line but also on main lines, that serves every station and siding along its route, dropping off and picking up wagons (freight cars) and goods where required.
    • The working timetable shows a pick-up goods daily over each section of the main line and three times a week over the branch. 1960 April 14, H. P. White, “The Railways of Sierra Leone”, in Railway Magazine, page 237: