stationmastern.
/ˈsteɪʃnˌmɑːstə/, /ˈsteɪʃnˌmastə/, U.S. /ˈsteɪʃənˌmæstər/ A man in charge of a station (in various senses); esp. one in charge of a railway station.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway worker > [noun] > in charge of station
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station agent1840
station-mistress1863
1836 S. Laing Jrnl. Resid. Norway i. 16 The station master sends notice to the farmers whose turn it is to furnish horses for this service.
1857 W. Collins Dead Secret I. iii. vi. 245 Did the station-master issue the tickets for that train?
1890 A. Thomas Love of Lady xiii. 138 I want to say a few words to the stationmaster about some traps of mine which are coming down by the next train.
1907 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 46 322 Mr. Christopher Giles..was then station master at Charlotte Waters telegraph station.
1953 Times 31 Oct. 2/9 The plaintiff might just as well bring an action against the station master of Waterloo.
2007 J. Hayward Living Proof (2011) 11 The stationmaster continued the investigation into the red stop light which had mysteriously caused the train to stop midcourse.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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