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Where the line gives up, the journey exhales, and the buffers wait patiently.
means The end point of a railway line, road, or travel route — the final stop where the journey concludes.
from Straight from Latin terminus, meaning a boundary or limit, the marker stone set at the edge of a field or property. The Romans took this so seriously they personified it as Terminus, a god of boundary markers whose stones were never to be moved. The same root branches out into 'term,' 'terminate,' and 'determine' — all about lines and the ends of things — and the railway sense, the final stop at the line's edge, is just the old boundary idea riding the rails.
- roman god
- Terminus was the deity of boundary stones, immovable on principle
- refused to move
- Even Jupiter couldn't evict him from his temple
- dead end
- Trains stop here because the track simply quits
- latin root
- Means limit or boundary, ancestor of terminate
- comic book
- DC villain Terminus literally branded planets with his initial
union station washington dc — major railroad terminus opened 1907, serves amtrak and commuter rail
grand central terminal — historic nyc transit hub opened 1913, serves 750,000 commuters daily
central station copenhagen — danish railway terminus opened 1911, major scandinavian transport hub