union station

English

Noun

union station (plural union stations)

  1. (rail transport, US, Canada) A railroad station shared by more than one railroad company, usually to spread the costs and ease the logistics of serving a particular town by rail.
    • 1978 May, Howell, Alice, “Railroads in Buffalo County”, in Buffalo Tales [a newsletter of the Buffalo County Historical Society, Buffalo County, Nebraska]‎, volume 1, number 5:
      The Burlington had built a union station at the junction, but the Union Pacific refused to stop its trains there until it received an interest in the townsite.
  2. (When capitalized as a proper noun, "Union Station") An instance of such a station, as for example Union Station in Toronto or Union Station in Los Angeles.

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