railway station
railway facility where trains regularly stop to load or unload passengers and/or freight
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Summary
railway station is a type of station[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of type of station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,834 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: type of organization[3]
- Subclass of: rail transport station[4], operating control point[5], public transport stop[6], railway facility[7]
- Part of: rail infrastructure[8], railway[9]
- Commons category: Train stations[10]
- Said to be the same as: train station[11]
- Unicode character: 🚉[12]
- Has part(s): railroad switch[13], railway track[14], cross-platform interchange[15], railway platform[16], Spanish solution[17], station throat[18], 三角月台[19], split platform[20], station building[21], railway catering[22]
- Topic's main category: Category:Railway stations[23]
- Commons gallery: Railway station[24]
- OpenStreetMap tag: railway=station[25]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[26], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[27], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[28]
- Topic has template: Template:Infobox station[29], Template:Infobox station 2[30], Template:Adjacent stations[31], Sjabloon:Infobox spoorwegstation WD[32], Template:Infobox Japan station[33]
- Main Wikidata property: P12783[34]
- Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/RailwayStation[35], https://schema.org/TrainStation[36]
- Different from: railway station settlement[37], railway stop[38], station building[39], railway town[40]
- Properties for this type: P625[41], P197[42], P17[43], P131[44], P296[45], P1619[46], P576[47], P137[48], P931[49], P138[50], P18[51], P81[52], P1192[53], P5817[54]
- Position held by head of the organization: station master[55]
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Influence
Things named for railway station include Nádražní[56], a former entity[57], in Czech Republic[58].
Why It Matters
railway station has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[59] It is known by 113 alternative names across languages and contexts.[60]
Entities named for it include Nádražní[56], a former entity[57], in Czech Republic[58].