cattle truck

English

A historical cattle truck in a museum in Wales

Noun

cattle truck (plural cattle trucks)

1. (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