Station

In the broadest sense, station means place or position. It may be said that, wherever a man stays in pursuance of orders, he is stationed, and that, if he is a military man, such place becomes a military station. But, as used in the army laws and regulations, military station is synonymous with military post, and means a place where troops are assembled; where military stores are kept or distributed; where military duty is performed, or military protection afforded, — where something, in short, more or less closely connected with arms or war, is kept or is to be done. It would be a misuse of language to designate, as a post or a military station, a cottage in a country village, in no way distinguishable, in its use or appointments, from every other residence in the village, because one of the persons who lives in it is an officer in the army. Hence, an officer who, pursuant to orders, has left his former station, and gone to his home, and remained there awaiting orders, cannot be said to have made an exchange of stations. His home is not a station.

United States v. Phisterer, 94 U. S. 219, 220.

Station

As used in a statute forbidding a railroad company to abandon a station, without the consent of the railroad commissioners, does not apply to a mere platform, at which certam daily trains stop to take or leave passengers, but at which no office or agent is kept, nor tickets sold. State V. New Haven, &c.

R. R. Co., 41 Cmn. 134.