a railway yard where goods wagons are received and dispatched in trains
As was usual at country stations there was a small goods yard dealing with coal andcattle.
goods yard in American English
noun
Brit
a railway freight yard
Word origin
[1890–95]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bootstrap, cholesterol, historicism, phoneme, pogey
Examples of 'goods yard' in a sentence
goods yard
Boxpark opens next month, with about 60 shops, in a derelict railway goods yard.