flag station

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of flag station¹

An Americanism dating back to 1845–50

Example Sentences

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

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Over fifty years ago when I was a small child, I stood at a flag-station waiting for the train.

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A few miles south was a small flag-station, and sometimes one heard a heavy freight train rumble in the woods.

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It was about three miles to the flag station, and I believe his mother lived somewhere on the way.

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Three hours from Weymouthville, in the gray dawn, Mr. Robert alighted from the train at a lonely flag-station.

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