flag station
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of flag station
An Americanism dating back to 1845–50
Example Sentences
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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
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
It was, of course, easily possible that he had boarded the train at a flag station ten miles up the line that was nearer to El Quiss.
From The Mystery of The Barranca by Herman Whitaker
To this county he was tracked and yesterday captured at Clow, a flag station on the Arkansas & Louisiana railway about twenty miles north of Hope.
From The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
When the train had passed Mr. Oliver and his companions crossed the rails and entered a desolate flag station, which consisted of a roughly boarded, iron-roofed shack and a big water tank.
From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Harold Bindloss
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