goods-train

Updated: June 28, 2025

Or I made myself seem so, for I wanted to know how the collision had happened. My uncle told me that the engine-driver had failed to see a signal because of the fog, and our train had crashed into a goods-train. "I didn't ask him about the people who were with me. You see, there was no need to ask. "Very gently my uncle began to tell me, but I had begun to talk strangely, I suppose.

Sir Max Beerbohm - A. V. Laider

He heard the Bavarians arguing and vociferating a great deal, and learned that they meant to go too and wanted to go with the great stove itself. But this they could not do, for neither could the stove go by a passenger train nor they themselves go in a goods-train.

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