Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word WAGONLOAD
WAGONLOAD
Definitions of WAGONLOAD
- The amount that can be loaded onto a wagon.
- The load of a wagon.
- (railways) A type of freight train service in which individual wagons have separate destinations and/or cargos.
- (informal) A very large amount.
Number of letters
9
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using WAGONLOAD in a Sentence
- RfD took over BR's Freightliner and Speedlink services and general wagonload and trainload services, excluding coal, petroleum, aggregates and metals.
- Lessons learned from the elimination of wagonload operations created a push to emphasise and expand long-distance trips, such as Freightliner container traffic from ports in Felixstowe, Southampton, and London Thamesport.
- Other wagonload freight activities and containerised freight were organised in the Railfreight Distribution (RfD) division at the same time.
- In summer 2010, SBB Cargo ordered 30 new two-axle hybrid locomotives (type Eem 923 Hybrid) from Stadler Winterthur AG to replace the Bm 4/4 shunting locomotives and various three-axle shunting locomotives used for light freight duties for wagonload traffic, since the old locomotives no longer met current requirements in terms of age, cost-effectiveness and performance.
- Most trains operating from Dollands Moor are of the Trainload variety and if any marshalling is required, this was historically undertaken at European Freight Operating Centre in Wembley, but with the drawdown of the Wagonload network in the UK they now go to Didcot.
- Occasionally it would trip to Thurnby & Scraptoft during the day with a wagonload of coal which would be shunted into the siding for the local coal merchant.
- After the end of the Speedlink service in 1991, a number of services were initiated in attempts to serve the potential wagonload rail freight market:Railfreight Distribution (RfD) established a wagonload service for cross-channel tunnel freight, named Connectrail; the operations of this business were incorporated into EWS after it acquired RfD in 1997, and merged it into its 'Enterprise' service.
- By the mid-1960s, wagonload freight was still unprofitable, incentivizing British Rail to curtail the service and in turn withdraw older, unfitted rolling stock.
- With Nationalisation came the 1955 Modernisation Plan, which called for centralised goods sorting, and Perth New Yard was one of four main yards in Scotland to handle the wagonload traffic business, the others being Millerhill in Edinburgh, Thornton Yard near Glenrothes, and Mossend near Glasgow.
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