Some articles on freight:
... Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT) is a rail-road intermodal freight terminal with an associated warehousing estate the facility is ...
... Occasionally, balloon loops are used for reversing trains on lines with heavy grades and tight curves to equalise wear on both sides of locomotives and rollingstock ... Such a balloon loop was constructed at Beech Forest on the 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) Victorian Railways line from Colac to Crowes ...
... To the west of the station is a major freight terminal and marshalling yard ... A bogie exchange facility was located here between 1980 and 1995 ...
... mixed train carrying both passengers and freight running each way per day ... Special freight trains ran as necessary, especially to collect livestock from Pleasant Point ... Wednesdays, and Fridays, with solely freight carried on Tuesdays and Thursdays ...
... These were mixed trains that carried both passengers and freight, and with the opening of the line to Bennetts Junction, they ran through to Oxford ... Much traffic carried on the Eyreton Branch was actually freight from Oxford using the Eyreton route as a shortcut to the Main North Line ... from road, and as road transport increased in competitiveness, freight dwindled ...
More definitions of "freight":
- (verb): Transport commercially as cargo.
- (noun): Goods carried by a large vehicle.
Synonyms: cargo, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment, consignment
- (noun): Transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates.
Synonyms: freightage
- (noun): The charge for transporting something by common carrier.
Example: "We pay the freight"; "the freight rate is usually cheaper"
Synonyms: freightage, freight rate
Famous quotes containing the word freight:
“People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)
“These have been wonderful years. How many happy, happy times we have traveled about together! Day and night, in stage coaches, on freight trains, over the mountains and across the prairies, hungry and tired, we have wandered. The work was sometimes hard and discouraging but those were happy and useful years.”
—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)
“Man, she looked as though she’d been thrown off the crummiest freight train in the world. Yet, in spite of this, I got the impression of beauty. Not the beauty of a movie actress, mind you, or the beauty you dream about when you’re with your wife. But a natural beauty. A beauty that’s almost homely because it’s so real.”
—Martin Goldsmith, and Edgar G. Ulmer. Al Roberts (Tom Neal)