ghost station
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.32 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A disused metro station that is passed through, but not stopped at, by passenger trains.
Example Sentences
- "In Berlin, however, there is a handful of 'proper' ghost stations that can still be uncovered and observed, if not always visited. They constitute one of the German capital's lesser-known Cold War features, the so-called Geisterbahnhoffe^([sic]). […] Ghost stations (and platforms) appeared as a direct result of the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. […] With the collapse of the Wall and the reunification of Germany, the divided stations and railway lines of Berlin were 'reunited' too. The last 'ghost station' was reopened to all passengers in 1992, and the very term - "ghost station" - had come to denote any disused platform remaining from the divide."
Etymology
Calque of German Geisterbahnhöfe, originally describing stations in Berlin that were closed during the Cold War.