{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.goods-shed","code":"thing-q1680993","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q1680993/","name":"goods shed","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.2.0-wave.4","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Physical world and living systems","entryKind":"thing","plane":"PHY","domain":["PHY.BLT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"A railway building for transferring, storing and handling freight between trains and road vehicles, typically a long shed with a track running through or alongside it, loading platforms and sometimes an internal crane, common at stations in the 19th and 20th centuries before containerisation and road haulage reduced wagonload traffic; many surviving goods sheds have been converted to shops, homes or event spaces, and some are listed heritage buildings.","purpose":"Let an agent explain goods sheds, relay design, operations, decline 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