railway station

Noun

Meaning

terminal where trains load or unload passengers or goods

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

railroad station train station railroad terminal train depot depot metro stage station stop terminal subway terminus bus station railhead metro station
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Antonyms

avoid

Hypernyms

depot terminal terminus

Hyponyms

flag stop way station

Examples

So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending. Robert Fripp

I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way. Sydney Brenner

Saint Pancras was a fourteen-year old Christian boy who was martyred in Rome in AD 304 by the Emperor Diocletian. In England he is better known as a railway station. John Betjeman

I'm sitting in the railway station. Got a ticket to my destination. On a tour of one-night stands my suitcase and guitar in hand. And ev'ry stop is neatly planned for a poet and a one-man band. Paul Simon

[Mrs Thatcher] started quoting St Francis within minutes of becoming elected, and scarcely an hour had gone by before she was sounding like the book of Revelations read out over a railway station public address system by a headmistress of a certain age wearing calico knickers. Clive James

A railway station is something that can generate a city. Santiago Calatrava

Close letter words and terms

railway sleepers railway spine railway stamp railway system railway terminal railway tie