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Railroad station   /rˈeɪlrˌoʊd stˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Railroad station

noun
1.
Terminal where trains load or unload passengers or goods.  Synonyms: railroad terminal, railway station, train depot, train station.






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"Railroad station" Quotes from Famous Books



... leads me any where near a railroad station, I will see that you are put in the way of returning to your home. I am sure if your father was here, he would insist upon my chasing the villain. If he escapes me, your father will lose a large sum ...
— Desk and Debit - or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk • Oliver Optic

... building and owning a house in the first years of married life is the chance that the house will be too large or too small, or the railroad station will be moved, or the trolley line will be run under the garden window, or a smoking chimney will fill the library with soot (although the latter will not be permitted in ...
— The Cost of Shelter • Ellen H. Richards

... at the sight of a white man, even if only a "gringo," traveling on foot, the manager had insisted on lending me a horse and mozo to the railroad station of Moreno, fifteen miles distant, but still within the confines of the hacienda. It may be also that he gave orders to have me out of his sight before he rose. At any rate it was barely three when a knock at the door aroused me and by four I stumbled out into ...
— Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras - Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond • Harry A. Franck

... thieves. Major Brown with two companies and three days' rations pushed ahead in advance of the main command. On the eighteenth day out, being unsuccessful in the chase, and nearly out of rations, the entire command marched toward the nearest railroad station and camped on the Saline river, three ...
— An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) • Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody)

... early train and at the nearest railroad station to the town mentioned in the despatch engaged a hackman who knew the coroner, ...
— Guy Garrick • Arthur B. Reeve


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