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means A building and platform complex where trains stop so passengers can board, alight, or transfer.

from A straightforward compound: 'railway' (rail + way, meaning a track laid with rails for guided travel, which emerged in English once iron rails replaced wooden ones in the early industrial era) plus 'station' (from Latin 'statio,' 'a standing, a post,' via 'stare,' 'to stand'). The word 'station' had long meant a fixed post or stopping place — a military station, a station of the cross — before railways borrowed it for the fixed point where trains, fittingly, stand still.