Station agent

Definition

stationmaster /'steÇʃnmɑ:stǝ(r) / ( US also station agent ) n ႐ံုပိုင္။

Examples

1. ‘The stationmaster announced that the track was fixed
2. so there were cheers all round.’
3. ‘Children unable to go on to higher education were absorbed into the government sectors as postmasters
4. stationmasters
5. clerks and other white-collar jobs.’
6. ‘Fo grew up in a village on the shores of Lake Maggiore
7. near Italy's border with Switzerland
8. where his father worked as the railway stationmaster
9. clandestinely helping refugees escape from Italy's fascists.’
10. ‘An incompetent stationmaster is posted to an apparently haunted station in Northern Ireland
11. where he and his equally inept assistants stumble across the activities of a ruthless gang of gun-runners.’
12. ‘When Brennan rides up to the way station
13. the stationmaster confesses that he is lonely out in the wilderness
14. and that being lonely is no way to live.’
15. ‘Outside mathematics he was the captain of the local Voluntary Fire Brigade and
16. more surprisingly
17. he assisted the stationmaster at the local railway station by closing the doors of the trains.’
18. ‘Many policemen
19. teachers
20. church ministers and pastoral workers kept photographic records of their experiences in the north.’
21. ‘Pandering to the great British obsession with train sets
22. here you not only play stationmaster but engine driver
23. yardmaster and route builder.’
24. ‘I grew up in the outer suburbs of Melbourne and the police were people of great authority
25. and the stationmaster was a man with a position in the community
26. and teachers and doctors were well respected.’
27. ‘John Fitzpatrick of Station Road
28. Ballybrophy
29. has retired after spending 37 years at Ballybrophy station where he was stationmaster.’
30. ‘The Haxby stationmaster telephoned to York for another engine
31. and in the meantime a goods train
32. proceeding from the direction of York
33. was stopped.’
34. ‘They were met there by a stationmaster in Sunday best and by a fleet of horse-drawn carriages from the estate.’
35. ‘The timekeeper at the docks and the stationmaster solicited votes.’
36. ‘Coombs studied to be a student teacher
37. the only profession then available to the son of a railway stationmaster.’
38. ‘The 42-year-old is celebrating 20 years as volunteer stationmaster at Damems station on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.’
39. ‘The stationmasters had computer consoles which they used to control the progress of this train when it appeared.’
40. ‘During the war
41. while she was working at Holt station near Bradford-on-Avon
42. she used to deal with secret armament trains while the stationmaster went off to the races.’
43. ‘The clerks were under management services from 1950 to 1980
44. together with stationmasters and other grades.’
45. ‘Technicians and stationmasters at Sri Lankan Railway took 48-hour strike action a day earlier halting 90 percent of rail services over the same issue.’
46. ‘A phone call to the stationmaster saw the ball recovered and returned on the next down train - from Carlisle.’