stationmaster

English

Etymology

station +‎ master

Noun

stationmaster (plural stationmasters)

1. (rail transport) The person in charge of a railroad station, usually an employee of a particular railroad by which the station is owned, but sometimes an employee of a separate corporation, such as one owning a station used by two or more railroads.
   • 1920, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “The Escape”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 273:

     The glare, the flies, while they waited, and he and the stationmaster put their heads together over the time-table, trying to find this other train, which, of course, they wouldn't catch.

   • 2023 March 8, Paul Salveson, “Fond farewells to two final trains...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 54:

     The stationmaster was an important part of the local community. Anyon Kay, in his reminiscences of Horwich in the early 20th century, remembers a Mr Horsfield as stationmaster - "a gentlemanly character who took his job very seriously".

Translations

the person in charge of a railroad station

• Bulgarian: началник гара m (načalnik gara)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 站長／站长 (zh) (zhànzhǎng)

• Danish: stationsmester c
• Finnish: asemapäällikkö (fi)
• French: chef de gare (fr) m
• German: Bahnhofsvorsteher (de) m, Bahnhofsvorstand m (Austria)
• Greek: σταθμάρχης (el) m (stathmárchis)
• Ingrian: stantsian nacalnikka
• Italian: capostazione (it) m
• Japanese: 駅長 (ja) (えきちょう, ekichō)
• Norwegian: stasjonsmester m
• Portuguese: chefe de estação m or f
• Romanian: șef de gară m
• Russian: нача́льник ста́нции m (načálʹnik stáncii)
• Swedish: stins (sv) c, stationsinspektor c