I have been away too long already: there is a freight-train expected, and I must see that the track is clear.
He might have been riding on some freight-train which had stopped at Banbridge, and stolen across and entered the vacant house.
It was Sandy Kilday, and he was waiting for the freight-train with the fixed intention of committing suicide.
Is there often a freight-train waiting here when you come along?
It is the voice of doom, for presently the 2.19 freight-train will thunder slowly through our end of the town.