box wagon
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box wagon
noun box wagons
- A large high-sided box-shaped open wagon mounted on two four-wheel bogies, similar to a North American gondola car. Greenbrier has completed production of the first JNA-X Box Wagon prototype in Romania. It forms part of an agreement for 50 new box wagons announced in March between the manufacturer, Porterbrook and GB Railfreight.
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Synonym of box van; a roofed goods wagon.
The filled mail bags leave in a continuous stream to be loaded on the train of box wagons at the L.N.E.R. station at Nottingham (London Road), of which we reproduce an illustration at page 95. […] The train takes 300 bags of mail to a box wagon. Each bag weighs about 56 lb. and contains an average o
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@misc{box_wagon_2026,
title = {box wagon},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/box%20wagon},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
