stationmaster

plural stationmasters

1. rail transportThe 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.

   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.

   1920, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “The Escape”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 273

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   A letter from the Stationmaster was issued to all the staff, thanking them for "sticking it out" through one of the most difficult periods ever experienced at Redhill. None of them will easily forget Christmas, 1957.

   1958 March 28, M. W. G. Skinner, “Christmas Fortnight at Redhill”, in Railway Magazine, page 169

   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".

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