“Freight Carriages” ???
I always heard them called freight cars or boxcars......
NEVER heard the term carriages......
Maybe carriages are what they’re called, over in the UK. This is a DM article. (Where we get USA news, that the American media won’t report :)
“Freight Carriages” ???
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Remember the source....
Daily Mail ... UK Different names in other countries
That’s a British term — like lorries (for trucks).
You gotta remember, this is a Limey newspaper. Thus, the term, “carriage.”
From a UK paper. In the UK, goods wagons or freight carriages run on tracks supported by sleepers. In the US freight cars run on tracks supported by ties. Rail transport is something that evolved after 1783 and before Satellite communications. Some of the vocabulary terms are different between UK and US english.
From a UK paper. In the UK, goods wagons or freight carriages run on tracks supported by sleepers. In the US freight cars run on tracks supported by ties. Rail transport is something that evolved after 1783 and before Satellite communications. Some of the vocabulary terms are different between UK and US english.
carriages is what they say in the UK.
“carriages” —> British term for rail cars.
Its a brit thing, happens all the time at Daily Mail.