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Railway official
Answer for the clue "Railway official ", 13 letters:
stationmaster
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Word definitions for stationmaster in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The person in charge of a railroad station, usually an employee of a particular railroad by which the station is owned, but sometimes an employee of a separate corporation, such as one owning a station used by two or more railroads.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the person in charge of a railway station [syn: station agent ]
Usage examples of stationmaster.
Skowhegan, he asked the stationmaster just where in Hell he thought the damn body was going.
Augusta was very sophisticated, for Maine, and the stationmaster simply saw that the body was going the wrong way.
The other mailorder catalogues were of a more standard variety, but the stationmaster was such a victim of his superstitions that his dreams frequently confused the images of his mailorder religious material with the household gadgets, nursing bras, folding chairs, and giant zucchinis he saw advertised in the catalogues.
Larch, the stationmaster became fairly aggressive in the presence of children and their imagined souls.
Like most easily frightened people, the stationmaster was something of a bully when he perceived that he had the upper hand.
The last thought that the stationmaster had was that the time for him, and for all the world, had come.
Larch could not have seen the weeds where the stationmaster lay stiffening, either.
Larch refrained from saying that by dying in this manner the stationmaster was intending a further inconvenience to the orphanage.
Wells looked over the weeds that concealed the dead stationmaster and saw Melony striding toward him.
He was a stupid young man, who sharec with the stationmaster an aspect of the bully: he would holler at children to keep their feet off the benches, but he would simper before anyone better dressed than himself and he tolerated any rudeness from anyone who had any advantage over him.
It would have been cruel to expect one of the abortion patients to tolerate his presence, or to put him alongside the expectant mother, and certainly it would have been upsetting to the orphans if the stationmaster had been stretched out on one of the dormitory beds.
She knew that even the new and stupid young stationmaster would be able to remember that, and he would tell Dr.
Larch was at the railroad station, personally accusing the stationmaster of losing an expected delivery of sulfa, a woman arrived at the hospital entrance, bent double with cramps and bleeding.
Larch spoke after the train had gone, the stationmaster thought that Larch might have been addressing the departed train.
The stationmaster, who hated to leave the television, was shoveling snow off the platform when the train pulled in.