box wagon

English

A GBRf box wagon at Bristol Temple Meads

Noun

box wagon (plural box wagons)

1. (rail transport, British) A large high-sided box-shaped open wagon mounted on two four-wheel bogies, similar to a North American gondola car.
   • 2022 September 7, “Network News: Box Wagon prototype ready for the UK”, in RAIL, number 965, page 22:

     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.

2. (rail transport) Synonym of box van; a roofed goods wagon.
   • 1945 March and April, “Army Post Office Mail Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 74:

     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.