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stationmaster (plural stationmasters)
- (rail transport) The person in charge of a railroad station, usually an employee of a particular railroad by which the station is owned, but sometimes an employee of a separate corporation, such as one owning a station used by two or more railroads.
1920, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “The Escape”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 273:
The glare, the flies, while they waited, and he and the stationmaster put their heads together over the time-table, trying to find this other train, which, of course, they wouldn't catch.
2023 March 8, Paul Salveson, “Fond farewells to two final trains...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 54:
The stationmaster was an important part of the local community. Anyon Kay, in his reminiscences of Horwich in the early 20th century, remembers a Mr Horsfield as stationmaster - "a gentlemanly character who took his job very seriously".
the person in charge of a railroad station
- Bulgarian: началник гара m (načalnik gara)
- Chinese:
- Danish: stationsmester c
- Finnish: asemapäällikkö (fi)
- French: chef de gare (fr) m
- German: Bahnhofsvorsteher (de) m, Bahnhofsvorstand m (Austria)
- Greek: σταθμάρχης (el) m (stathmárchis)
- Ingrian: stantsian nacalnikka
- Italian: capostazione (it) m
- Japanese: 駅長 (ja) (えきちょう, ekichō)
- Norwegian: stasjonsmester m
- Portuguese: chefe de estação m or f
- Romanian: șef de gară m
- Russian: нача́льник ста́нции m (načálʹnik stáncii)
- Swedish: stins (sv) c, stationsinspektor c