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freight train

NOUN
  1. a railroad train consisting of freight cars

How To Use freight train In A Sentence

  • They blew up the line and derailed a freight train as well. Times, Sunday Times
  • The state government retains the right to license other operators to run passenger and freight trains over the country rail network.
  • You often see freight trains composed of 20 or 30 fully laden wagons. Times, Sunday Times
  • This bit of nonnews has to strike some in the Democratic Party the same way I looked upon the inevitability of the Bob Dole For President freight train in 1996. From On High
  • Freight trains travel slowly on upgrades into the hills.
  • He was a freight train conductor but could not work. The Sun
  • Amtrak does, although Conrail has an exclusive right to operate any freight trains on the corridor.
  • That sound was probably just part of the brakes, and I now see that a freight train is passing us on the right (our compartment is on the left).
  • After the impact the passenger train was derailed, but remained upright until it travelled over a set of points which deflected it into the path of the freight train travelling in the opposite direction.
  • They shared a top tier of bunks in a corner of a freight train. Times, Sunday Times
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