flag station

American  

noun

1. a railroad station where trains stop only when a flag or other signal is displayed or when passengers are to be discharged.

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Etymology

Origin of flag station

An Americanism dating back to 1845–50

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Example Sentences

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flag station

At the tiny flag station of Wykes, C.N.R.'s No. 11, more than an hour late, slid to an unscheduled stop.

From Time Magazine Archive

Steve found that Crosscut, the little flag station over which Mr. Follet presided, had expanded into a small straggling town with a meeting-house, school of uncertain sessions and a thriving saloon.

From The Boy from Hollow Hut A Story of the Kentucky Mountains by Isla May Mullins

"Is that a foreign country," says I, "or a nickname for some flag station?"

From On With Torchy by Foster Lincoln

Of all this Ralph was thinking as they passed the flag station at Luce, and shot around the long curve guarded by a line of bluffs just beyond.

From Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car by Allen Chapman

At one flag station the train was signalled and came to a stop.

From Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' by Helen Mason Groce

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