Other forms: stationmasters
A stationmaster is the person in charge of a railway station. The stationmaster's office, ask the stationmaster, a village stationmaster.
The job has largely gone from small stations, which now have nobody at all, and the title survives at major ones. In the great days the stationmaster wore a top hat and lived in a house on the platform, which many stations still have.
1nounstationmasterThe person in charge of a station.
“The stationmaster blew his whistle and waved the train away from the platform.”
stationmaster is an official.
Station plus master, from the earliest days of the railways.
From station + master.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA