flag station

noun

1. a railroad station where trains stop only when a flag or other signal is displayed or when passengers are to be discharged.

Word History and Origins

Origin of flag station¹

An Americanism dating back to 1845–50

Example Sentences

Of all this Ralph was thinking as they passed the flag station at Luce, and shot around the long curve guarded by a line of bluffs just beyond.

From Project Gutenberg

But although the railroad which they expected never came; or the railroad which did come went on and scheduled the place as a flag station; still, there is a certain inherent vitality here, an 102 undefined something that holds these people together, a certain degree of hopefulness which cannot rise to the point of ambition, a serene satisfaction with the things that are.

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At last I hear its throbbing, which ceases as it pauses at the flag station under the hill.

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He'll leave the cars at the flag station where there's nobody to detain him, and, buying a horse at the first ranch, strike south for the border.

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When the train had passed Mr. Oliver and his companions crossed the rails and entered a desolate flag station, which consisted of a roughly boarded, iron-roofed shack and a big water tank.

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