railway station

English

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Noun

railway station (plural railway stations)

1. (British) A place where trains stop for passengers to embark and disembark.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.

   • 1944 July and August, “London Railway Stations in 1893”, in Railway Magazine, page 201, taken from The English Illustrated Magazine of June 1893:

     In conclusion, I would remark that the great railway stations of London deserve to be visited every whit as much as St. Paul's Cathedral, the Abbey, or the Tower, and they are as worthy a memento of this century as those buildings are of the days that are gone.

   • 1953 April, Henry Maxwell, “Abandoned Railway Stations”, in Railway Magazine, page 270:

     We may be pardoned our nostalgia, those of us who can remember the old days, the days before the grouping and before standardisation, when we see, as today we see so often, the derelict and abandoned buildings of what were once railway stations, for the life which they used to enjoy we lived with them. There they stand, today, as the dusk deepens about them, lampless, cold and deserted.

   • 2019 October, John Glover, “Heathrow rail expansion”, in Modern Railways, page 71:

     Committed infrastructure improvements and delivery of Heathrow's rail vision has the potential to increase the number of railway stations directly connected to the airport by a multiple of six, to 36 [not including London Underground stations], while the number of stations accessible by a single interchange could increase from 125 today to 697 by 2040.

Synonyms

• (US) railroad station
• train station

Translations

place where trains stop

• Albanian: stacion hekurudhor m, stacion i trenit m
• Arabic: مَحَطَّة السِّكَك الْحَدِيدِيَّة f (maḥaṭṭat as-sikak al-ḥadīdiyya), مَحَطَّة f (maḥaṭṭa), مَحَطَّة قِطَار f (maḥaṭṭat qiṭār)
• Armenian: երկաթուղային կայարան (erkatʻuġayin kayaran)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܲܬܩܢܵܐ ܕܣܸܟܬܵܐ m (matqnā d-siktā)
• Azerbaijani: dəmiryol stansiyası, vağzal (az)
• Belarusian: вакза́л m (vakzál), ста́нцыя f (stáncyja), чыгу́начная ста́нцыя f (čyhúnačnaja stáncyja), дварэ́ц m (dvaréc) (dialectal)
• Bengali: রেলওয়ে স্টেশন (relōẇe sṭeśon), ট্রেন স্টেশন (ṭren sṭeśon)
• Bulgarian: железопъ́тна га́ра f (železopǎ́tna gára), ЖП га́ра f (ŽP gára), га́ра (bg) f (gára), ста́нция (bg) f (stáncija)
• Burmese: ဘူတာရုံ (my) (bhutarum)
• Catalan: estació ferroviària f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 火車站 / 火车站 (fo² ce¹ zaam⁶)

  Dungan: хуәчәзан (huəčəzan)

  Gan: 火車站 / 火车站 ('fo³ ca¹ zan⁴)

  Hakka: 火車站 / 火车站 (fó-chhâ-cham)

  Hokkien: 火車站 / 火车站 (zh-min-nan) (hoé-chhia-chām / hé-chhia-chām)

  Jin: 火車站 / 火车站 (hue² ce¹ zan³)

  Mandarin: 火車站 / 火车站 (zh) (huǒchēzhàn)

  Wu: 火車站 / 火车站

• Czech: železniční stanice f, stanice (cs) f, nádraží (cs) n
• Danish: banegård (da) c, jernbanestation (da) c, togstation (da) c
• Dutch: spoorwegstation (nl) n, treinstation (nl) n
• Erzya: чугункань лотксематарка (čugunkań lotkśematarka)
• Estonian: raudteejaam (et), rongijaam
• Faroese: tokstøð f, jarnbreytarstøð f
• Finnish: rautatieasema (fi), juna-asema (fi)
• French: gare (fr) f, gare ferroviaire (fr) f, gare de chemin de fer f
• Georgian: რკინიგზის სადგური (rḳinigzis sadguri), ვაგზალი (vagzali)
• German: Bahnhof (de) m, Bahnstation (de) f, Bahnstelle f, Eisenbahnstation (de) f, Verkehrsstation f, Zugangsstelle f
• Greek: σιδηροδρομικός σταθμός (el) m (sidirodromikós stathmós)
• Hebrew: תַּחֲנַת רַכֶּבֶת (he) f (takhanát rakévet)
• Hindi: रेलवे स्टेशन m (relve sṭeśan), ट्रेन स्टेशन m (ṭren sṭeśan)
• Hungarian: vasútállomás (hu), pályaudvar (hu)
• Icelandic: lestarstöð (is) f, brautarstöð (is) f, sporgarður m, járnbrautarstöð (is) f
• Indonesian: stasiun (id) kereta (id) api (id)
• Ingrian: vokzala
• Irish: stáisiúin traenach m
• Italian: stazione (it) f, stazione ferroviaria f
• Japanese: 鉄道駅 (ja) (てつどうえき, tetsudōeki), 駅 (ja) (えき, eki)
• Kashubian: banof m, banowiszcze n
• Kazakh: темір жол бекеті (temır jol beketı), вокзал (vokzal)
• Khmer: ស្ថានីយអយស្ម័យយាន (sthaanii ʼaʼyaʼsmay yiən), ស្ថានីយ (km) (sthaanii)
• Korean: 역(驛) (ko) (yeok) , 철도역(鐵道驛) (cheoldoyeok), 기차역(汽車驛) (gichayeok)
• Kyrgyz: темир жол бекети (temir jol beketi), вокзал (ky) (vokzal)
• Lao: ສະຖານີລົດໄຟ (lo) (sa thā nī lot fai), ສະຖານີ (sa thā nī)
• Latvian: dzelzceļa stacija f, stacija f
• Lithuanian: geležinkelio stotis m, stotis (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Gare (lb) f
• Macedonian: железничка станица f (železnička stanica)
• Malay: stesen kereta api
• Maltese: stazzjon
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: төмөр замын буудал (tömör zamyn buudal), төмөр замын өртөө (tömör zamyn örtöö), вокзал (mn) (vokzal)

  Mongolian: ᠲᠡᠮᠦᠷ
  ᠵᠠᠮ
  ᠤ᠋ᠨ
  ᠪᠠᠭᠤᠳᠠᠯ (temür ǰam un baɣudal), ᠲᠡᠮᠦᠷ
  ᠵᠠᠮ
  ᠤ᠋ᠨ
  ᠥᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡ (temür ǰam un örtege), ᠸᠣᠻᠽᠠᠯ (wokzal)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: togstasjon m, jernbanestasjon m

  Nynorsk: jarnbanestasjon m, jernbanestasjon m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: ایسْتْگاهِ رَاه‌آهَن (istgâh-e râh-âhan), ایسْتْگاهِ قَطار (istgâh-e ğatâr)

• Polish: stacja kolejowa (pl) f, dworzec kolejowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: estação de trem f (Brazil), estação ferroviária f (Portugal), estação de comboios m (Portugal), gare (pt) f
• Romanian: gară (ro) f, stație de cale ferată f, gară feroviară f
• Romansch: staziun f
• Russian: железнодоро́жная ста́нция f (železnodoróžnaja stáncija), ста́нция (ru) f (stáncija), вокза́л (ru) m (vokzál), железнодоро́жный вокза́л m (železnodoróžnyj vokzál)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: железничка станица f, жељезничка станица f, ста̀ница f, ко̏лодво̄р m

  Roman: železnička stanica f, željeznička stanica f, stànica (sh) f, kȍlodvōr (sh) m

• Shan: ႁူင်းရထႃး (húung rǎ tháa), တႃႈရထႃး (tāa rǎ tháa)
• Silesian: banhow m
• Slovak: železničná stanica f, stanica f, nádražie n
• Slovene: železniška postaja f, kolodvor m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: dwórnišćo n

  Upper Sorbian: dwórnišćo n

• Spanish: estación de ferrocarril f, estación ferroviaria f, estación ferrovial f, estación ferrocarrilera f
• Swahili: stesheni ya treni, kituo cha reli, kituo cha garimoshi
• Swedish: järnvägsstation (sv) c
• Tajik: истгоҳи роҳи оҳан (istgoh-i roh-i ohan), вокзал (tg) (vokzal)
• Thai: สถานีรถไฟ (sà-tǎa-nii rót-fai), สถานี (th) (sà-tǎa-nii)
• Tibetan: རི་ལི་བབས་ཚུགས (ri li babs tshugs)
• Turkish: tren istasyonu (tr)
• Ukrainian: залізни́чна ста́нція f (zaliznýčna stáncija), вокза́л m (vokzál), ста́нція (uk) f (stáncija), дворе́ць m (dvorécʹ) (dialectal), двіре́ць m (dvirécʹ) (dialectal)
• Urdu: ریلْوے اِسْٹیشَن m (relve isṭeśan), راہ آہَنِ اِیسْتْگاہ m (rāh āhan-i īstgāh)
• Uyghur: ئىستانسا (istansa), بېكەت (bëket), ۋوگزال (wogzal), پويىز ئىستانسىسى (poyiz istansisi)
• Uzbek: temir yoʻl stansiyasi, vokzal (uz)
• Vietnamese: nhà ga (vi), nhà ga hành khách, ga (vi), bến tàu hỏa
• Welsh: gorsaf f, gorsaf rheilffordd f
• Yiddish: באַן סטאַנציע f (ban stantsye)
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

References

• “railway station”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.