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Wiktionary

  1. n. A place where trains stop for passengers to embark and disembark.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. terminal where trains load or unload passengers or goods

Examples

  • “One of these, a rattle-brained New Yorker named Charles J. Guiteau, approached the President on J.ly 2, 1881, as he was waiting at a railroad station in Washington, about to start on a journey, and shot him through the body.”

    American Men of Action

  • “He went all the way to the railroad station to pick up a Dr Weiss.”

    Stallion Gate

  • “Their first goal had been the railroad track, and then they’d intended to follow that down to the railroad station in Putkin’s Corners, because the library — this library right here — was directly across the street from that station.”

    Drowned Hopes

  • “A few days ago I met Tommy Stringer in the railroad station at Wrentham.”

    The Story of My Life

  • “On the day that this officer was to arrive, Major B.own had his private ambulance brought out, and invited me to accompany him to the railroad station to meet his lieutenant, whose name was A.B. B.che.”

    The Life of Hon William F Cody

  • “Then, with a guard of honor to the railroad station and with mourning dignitaries in procession, John Pelham's body began its long, last journey home to Alabama.”

    Simon & Schuster: LEE’S LIEUTENANTS

  • “Then, when the railroad come through, after the Civil War, Cronley got bigger, got to be county seat, a whole lot of warehouses got built, offices for businessmen, a big five-story hotel down by the railroad station for traveling salesmen, tallest building in town.””

    Drowned Hopes

  • “In 1908 I built the house I now occupy (in Moylan, Pennsylvania), which is the realization of a desire I have always had -- to build on a tract which had a stream, a grove of trees, great boulders and rocks, and a hill site for the house with a broad outlook, and a railroad station conveniently near.”

    The Story of a Pioneer

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