I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a freight/goods train
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a freight train carrying hazardous chemicals
freight car
freight train
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
heavy
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The heavy freight diesel replacement policy was a muddle from beginning to end.
■ NOUN
air
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Assembled products can be quickly shipped to wherever they are needed with just-in-time air freight delivery systems.
business
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Government decided that the whole of the railway freight business should pay its way.
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It was a vital part of the railway freight business .
car
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The bait, in the form of the unlocked freight car , had been taken.
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Background: Arizona law limited train lengths to fourteen passenger cars or seventy freight cars in the asserted interests of safety.
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It was stencilled in white paint on the freight car fourth from the front.
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He made a mental note of the number of coaches and freight cars .
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Six coaches and eight freight cars .
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It smashed against the rusted freight car behind her, shattering the glass exterior and buckling the sensitive anode.
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The wind still managed to find a way through the hairline crack, whistling eerily around the interior of the freight car .
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Her grim smile was triumphant when she turned back to the open freight car .
company
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Customs occupy a self-contained area within accommodation provided for freight companies requiring offices without warehousing.
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Its loss-making state rail network was split into six geographically-based companies and one freight company in 1987.
forwarders
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This bond requirement is not a substitute for the normal liability insurance carried by freight forwarders .
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Some of the changes in Hamburg reflected the increasingly important role of freight forwarders .
locomotive
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His first heavy main-line passenger and fast freight locomotive , of the 4-6-2 type, was built in 1941.
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From 1942 a class of more powerful 0-6-0 freight locomotives also gave excellent results.
operator
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Such uncertainty could deter potential private freight operators .
rail
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This is expected to lead to a halving of rail freight tariffs by 2005.
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The road lobby once again reigns supreme with rail freight raising prices to meet absurd Government targets.
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Fewer people have a car and half of Britain's rail freight is unloaded here.
service
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The station closed to passengers as from December 31, 1962 although freight services continued for some months more from Hereford to Eardisley.
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The current thinking is to sell off freight services first.
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The crash happened after a high-speed mainline train smashed into a freight service , near Selby, north Yorkshire.
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Passenger services ceased in the early 1950s and freight services in 1981.
traffic
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Finally, in 1940, freight traffic ceased and the track was removed in 1941.
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In Arizona, approximately 93 % of the freight traffic and 95 % of the passenger traffic is interstate.
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The local Station served the surrounding community and carried a fair amount of passenger and freight traffic .
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Until 1987 there were two separate train ferry operations for through freight traffic between Britain and the continent, Dover-Dunkerque and Harwich-Zeebrugge.
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This short-sighted analysis by Serpell is shown up most clearly in the section on freight traffic .
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On 1 May 1956 this branch finally closed, having been opened to passenger and freight traffic in 1863.
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The miners were joined by striking railway workers, who halted freight traffic .
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For all sorts of environmental reasons rail should be encouraged to increase its share of freight traffic .
train
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A spokesman said the freight train driver spotted the danger but could not prevent the collision.
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The state government retains the right to license other operators to run passenger and freight trains over the country rail network.
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Amtrak does, although Conrail has an exclusive right to operate any freight trains on the corridor.
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Jack was able to stop the freight train without accident.
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The freight train was partially derailed, with its shattered front end resting close to a home.
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What is the length of the longest ever recorded freight train ?
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Meanwhile, the New Zealand Interislander Ferry is bearing down on us like a 350-foot long, 40-foot tall aquatic freight train .
transport
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Land freight transport services contributed £353m in 1991, an increase of more than £30m on 1990.
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Housing construction and freight transport declined by 3 percent and 2 percent respectively in 1989 compared with 1988.
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This is certain to be opposed vigorously by freight transport organisations which argue that road taxes are already high in this country.
yard
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It doesn't just have Peavey - it has freight yards , shopping malls and medical research.
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This was a one-off event as the freight yard tracks are due to be lifted later in the summer.
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Eric's guitar sounded like two steel rail wagons clanging together in a Chicago freight yard at 4am.
■ VERB
carry
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This bond requirement is not a substitute for the normal liability insurance carried by freight forwarders.
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Coal carried by the freight train was scattered about in heaps.
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By 1856 the canals were carrying half as much freight as the railways.
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Holly carries a great freight of metaphor in his rucksack.
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The double track Botleks tunnel under the Oude Maas will carry freight trains between the docks and the Betuwe line.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The basic model is listed at $16,298 plus $500 freight .
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These trains haul freight between Grand Junction and Denver.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A class 31 is seen coming off the Mansfield line with a freight from Clipstone in 1965.
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Prices begin at $ 15, 825 with freight for a two-door model with rearwheel drive only.
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The defendants alleged short delivery under a contract of carriage and withheld part of the freight payable under the contract.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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The significance of red Few colours have been so heavily freighted with symbolic resonances as red.