A freight train is a train that carries goods, not people. A freight train passed, freight train tonnage, wait for the freight train.
One of them carries what would take dozens of lorries, and rail freight uses a fraction of the fuel per tonne. Britain says goods train as readily, and the American term has largely won.
1nounfreight trainA train that carries goods, not people.
“A long freight train loaded with coal rumbled past the station.”
freight train is a train.
Practised in Vehicles & Machines, Railways