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pick-up goods en · NOUN
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(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: