English
Pronunciation
Noun
railway station plural railway stations
( British ) trains stop for passengers to embark and disembark.
1898 Winston Churchill , chapter 2, in The Celebrity I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station . He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.
2019 Modern Railways , page 71 :Committed infrastructure improvements and delivery of Heathrow's rail vision has the potential to increase the number of railway stations directly connected to the airport by a multiple of six, to 36 [not including London Underground stations] , while the number of stations accessible by a single interchange could increase from 125 today to 697 by 2040.
Synonyms
Translations
place where trains stop
Arabic: مَحَطَّة اَلسِّكَك اَلْحَدِيدِيَّة f ( maḥaṭṭat as-sikak al-ḥadīdiyya ) , مَحَطَّة f ( maḥaṭṭa ) , مَحَطَّة قِطَار f ( maḥaṭṭat qiṭār )
Belarusian: чыгу́начная ста́нцыя f ( čyhúnačnaja stáncyja )
Bulgarian: железопътна га́ра f ( železopǎtna gára )
Burmese: ဘူတာရုံ (my) ( bhutarum )
Catalan: estació ferroviària f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 火車站 ／ 火车站 (zh) ( huǒchēzhàn ) , 火车站 (zh) ( huǒchēzhàn )
Czech: železniční stanice f stanice (cs) f
Danish: jernbanestation (da) , togstation
Dutch: spoorwegstation (nl) , treinstation (nl)
Estonian: raudteejaam (et)
Faroese: tokstøð f jarnbreytarstøð f
Finnish: rautatieasema (fi) , juna-asema (fi)
French: gare (fr) f gare ferroviaire (fr) f gare de chemin de fer f
Georgian: რკინიგზის სადგური ( rḳinigzis sadguri )
German: Eisenbahnstation (de) f Bahnstation (de) f
Greek: σιδηροδρομικός σταθμός m ( sidirodromikós stathmós )
Hebrew: תַּחֲנַת רַכֶּבֶת (he) f ( takhanát rakévet )
Hindi: रेलवे स्टेशन ( relve sṭeśan )
Hungarian: vasútállomás (hu)
Icelandic: lestarstöð f brautarstöð (is) f sporgarður m járnbrautarstöð (is) f
Irish: stáisiúin traenach m
Italian: stazione (it) f stazione ferroviaria f
Japanese: 鉄道駅 ( てつどうえき, tetsudō-eki ) , 駅 (ja) ( えき, eki )
Khmer: ស្ថានីយអយស្ម័យយាន ( sthaanii ʼaʼyaʼsmay yiən ) , ស្ថានីយ (km) ( sthaanii )
Korean: 역 (ko) ( yeok ) , 철도역 ( cheoldoyeok ) , 기차역 ( gichayeok )
Lao: ສະຖານີລົດໄຟ (lo) ( sa thā nī lot fai ) , ສະຖານີ ( sa thā nī )
Latvian: dzelzceļa stacija f stacija f
Lithuanian: geležinkelio stotis m stotis (lt) m
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Macedonian: железничка станица f ( železnička stanica )
Malay: stesen kereta api
Maltese: stazzjon
Mongolian: төмөр замын буудал ( tömör zamyn buudal )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: togstasjon m jernbanestasjon m
Nynorsk: jarnbanestasjon m jernbanestasjon m
Persian: ایستگاه راه آهن
Polish: stacja kolejowa (pl) f
Portuguese:
Brazilian: estação de trem f
European: estação ferroviária f
Romanian: gară (ro) f stație de cale ferată f gară feroviară f
Romansch: staziun f
Russian: железнодоро́жная ста́нция f ( železnodoróžnaja stáncija ) , ста́нция (ru) f ( stáncija )
Serbo-Croatian: железничка станица f жељезничка станица f železnička stanica f željeznička stanica f станица f stanica (sh) f
Slovak: železničná stanica f
Slovene: železniška postaja f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dwórnišćo n
Upper Sorbian: dwórnišćo n
Spanish: estación de ferrocarril f estación (es) f
Swahili: stesheni ya treni
Swedish: järnvägsstation (sv) c
Thai: สถานีรถไฟ ( sà-tǎa-nii rót-fai ) , สถานี ( sà-tǎa-nii )
Tibetan: རི་ལི་བབས་ཚུགས ( ri li babs tshugs )
Turkish: tren istasyonu
Ukrainian: залізни́чна ста́нція f ( zaliznýčna stáncija ) , ста́нція (uk) f ( stáncija )
Vietnamese: nhà ga (vi) , nhà ga hành khách ga (vi) , bến tàu hỏa
Welsh: gorsaf f gorsaf rheilffordd f
an urban terminal for a number of trains
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