goods station

goods station

English

Goods station in Niihama, Japan

Noun

goods station (plural goods stations)

1. A railway station where freight is loaded or unloaded from ships or road vehicles and/or where goods wagons are transferred to local sidings.
   • 1914, Ernest Protheroe, The Railways of the World, London: Routledge, Chapter 9, p. 224,

     All through the day the collecting vans and lorries bring consignments of every description to the goods station proper, which consists of lines of rails and long platforms under cover. As fast as the packages are unloaded they are checked with the consignment notes, trundled off to weighing machines for their weight to be recorded, and are then conveyed to the decks or platforms convenient to the spot where they will be loaded later in the day.

   • 1945, C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce, Chapter 1, p. 13,

     However far I went I found only dingy lodging houses, small tobacconists, hoardings from which posters hung in rags, windowless warehouses, goods stations without trains, and bookshops of the sort that sell The Works of Aristotle.

   Synonym: freight yard