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Definition of freight yard in English: freight yardnoun A large railway yard in which freight wagons are organized into trains. better fencing and policing is needed around the freight yard Example sentencesExamples - Over the years many proposals for adding to the freight yards or relocating them were considered.
- The train wound its way through freight yards among mazes of tracks that fanned out in curved angles.
- Chicago is considering a $1.5 billion plan to untangle its freight yards, through which about one-third of the nation's rail freight passes.
- The mine is ringed with smelting plants, freight yards, railroad lines, a power plant and the country's largest battery plant.
- Over a quarter of a million tons of freight moves from depots to docks, from factories to freight yards.
- Then, when the river was nearly sucked dry, they lined it with railroad tracks and freight yards and dumped industrial waste into its bed.
- Another precaution includes creation of marked safety zones in freight yards where only remote-controlled engines can operate.
- This would mean the closure of the freight yard in Ballina Station and the potential loss of twelve jobs.
- The study will look into moving the freight yard out of the city centre, and possibly relocating it near the Food Park site.
- He said the proposed residential units would be one-half mile from the proposed freight yard.
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