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guard's van
noun
- railways the van in which the guard travels, usually attached to the rear of a train US and Canadian equivalentcaboose
Example Sentences
P stands still, as the carriages and finally the red tail-light on the guard’s van slowly pass her and vanish into the night.
On her return from Rome, she and her wheelchair had to travel in the guard's van on the train back to her home town in Preston.
Something with a peaked or rounded top should be chosen; the ventilation being safer in this, as flat-sided and flat-topped packages may be so crowded upon with others in a guard's van as to suffocate the inmate.
But half-a-crown drove it back, and I sprang into the guard's van on his very heels.
Mark it down on your cuff, Lawrence, that you once caught a train with five minutes to spare, instead of leisurely strolling up after it was already on the move, and having to scramble into the guard’s van.”
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