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Noun
[edit]goods shed (plural goods sheds)
- (rail transport) A building in a railway goods yard for the storage of goods before or after transport by train, typically with a track running through it to allow goods wagons to be unloaded under cover, although sometimes they were built alongside a track with possibly just a canopy over the door.
- 2021 October 20, Mark Rand, “S&C: a line fit for tourists... and everyone?”, in RAIL, number 942, page 42:
- And it wasn't just station buildings - workers' cottages, stationmasters' houses, signal boxes and goods sheds largely survived at a time when main line intermediate stations were being demolished.
Further reading
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