goods yard

goods yard (plural goods yards)

1. An area associated with a railway station where freight is loaded and unloaded.
   • 1901, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 2, in Kim‎, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 41:

     Kim led to the fort-like railway station, black in the end of night; the electrics sizzling over the goods-yard where they handle the heavy Northern traffic.

   • 1933, James Hilton, Knight Without Armour‎, London: Ernest Benn, Part 2:

     After marching into a goods yard beyond the station and halting beside a train, the manacled prisoners were pushed into cattle-trucks […]

   • 1951 September, B. D. J. Walsh, “The Sudbury and Haverhill Line, Eastern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 619:

     Here the line is joined by the Colne Valley branch, and both tracks are carried into Haverhill station upon a high embankment from which the town can be seen on the south side. The twin tracks, after traversing a scissors crossover, become the down and up roads through the station, which possesses an extensive goods yard.

   • 1978, Eva Figes, chapter 12, in Little Eden: A Child at War‎, New York: Persea Books, page 124:

     At the western perimeter the old railway station with its busy goods yards has become a bleak coach terminal: no bustle, no people, just an empty space and a timetable.

• freight yard

• yard goods