stationmaster

noun sta·tion·mas·ter \ ˈstā-shən-ˌma-stər \

Updated on: 28 Mar 2018

Definition of stationmaster

: an official in charge of the operation of a railroad station

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Recent Examples of stationmaster from the Web

The current station head and the 71-year-old widow of an assistant stationmaster who died in the attack placed flowers on a temporary altar set up for offerings.

— Fox News, "The Latest: Tokyo subway workers mark gas attack anniversary," 19 Mar. 2018
Louise, the oldest of nineteen children, was married to a railroad stationmaster.

— susan goldman rubin, Time, "Coco Chanel's Fascination With Fashion Started Early in Life," 13 Mar. 2018
The stationmaster was understanding and helped the man get a ticket back to Paris.

— mary morris, The Atlantic, "Fiction: Mama’s Haven," 11 Mar. 2018
Ray Klopp, in the stationmaster’s office, had taken the call from Feeney.

— john kelly, Washington Post, "‘Run for your lives!’ was the cry as a train burst across Union Station’s concourse.In 1953, just days before Eisenhower’s first inauguration, brakes on an inbound train failed.," 13 Jan. 2018
The stationmaster bicycles ahead of them to issue a warning at the watering hole; the residents begin to whisper.

— ben kenigsberg, New York Times, "Review: In ‘1945,’ Hungarian Villagers Are Forced to Revisit Wartime Sins," 31 Oct. 2017
The stationmaster bicycles ahead of them to issue a warning at the watering hole

— ben kenigsberg, New York Times, "Review: In ‘1945,’ Hungarian Villagers Are Forced to Revisit Wartime Sins," 31 Oct. 2017
Yet behind the loud affability, the flights on Concorde, the Jaguars and Rolls Royces and the glamorous wives, was a stationmaster’s son from Suffolk.

— The Economist, "Fighting for the stageObituary: Peter Hall died on September 11th," 21 Sep. 2017
Born in eastern England 1930, the son of a railway stationmaster, Hall began directing as a student at Cambridge University.

— USA TODAY, "Peter Hall, founder of Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, dies at 86," 12 Sep. 2017

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