box wagon

noun — 2 senses

box wagon

noun

1

Rail transport, Railways, Transport UK 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.2022 September 7, “Network News: Box Wagon prototype ready for the UK”, in RAIL, number 965, page 22:

2

Rail transport, Railways, Transport 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 of 95 news packets and 9 parcels.1945 March and April, “Army Post Office Mail Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 74:

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