cattle truck

English

Noun

cattle truck (plural cattle trucks)

(rail transport) A wagon used to transport livestock
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 211:
  It would be fair to say that seats have become smaller - and an Underground manager once told me that the ideal train would have no seats, and the whole platform-side of it would roll up and down like a venetian blind. It would be a cattle truck, in other words.

Translations

type of wagon

Finnish: karjavaunu

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