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A time machine that only moves you sideways, and still runs late.
means A building and set of platforms where trains stop so people can get on or off, and where tickets, waiting, and timetables happen.
from A compound of two straightforward paths: 'train,' from Old French 'trahiner' (to pull or drag), which came to mean a line of railway carriages once railways existed; and 'station,' from Latin 'statio' (a standing place, a post one keeps), via 'stare' (to stand). Put together in the railway age — early-to-mid 1800s — simply to name the fixed standing-place where the pulled carriages stop.
- origin
- Liverpool built the first one in 1830
- busiest
- Shinjuku moves 3.5 million people daily
- etiquette
- platform gaps cause more fear than the trains
- design flex
- grand stations were built to outshine cathedrals