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I am designing an application, and I am looking to group these two entities (airports and train stations) into one category. The primary meaning of station seems to be for trains, and air station seems to refer to military airfields.

Is there a word that can be used in place of both an airport and a train station?

Parham Doustdar
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    Your question is confusing to me. Are you looking for a word that combines airports and railway stations(the title) or a word that refers to beginning/end of a route?(the body) – BiscuitBoy Feb 16 '16 at 12:07
  • Sorry. I edited the question. I need the one in the title (i.e. airports and railway stations). – Parham Doustdar Feb 16 '16 at 12:27
  • @BiscuitBoy I disagree. There is a difference between the end points of a route and stops along the way (at least in the US). The referenced question only deals with end points. – bib Feb 16 '16 at 13:15
  • @bib - I couldn't tell any difference so I flagged it as a dupe. I thought it will still need 4 more votes from other users to be fully "marked as duplicate" but I didn't know Community user could vote as well! And apparently only one vote is required from diamond users. How should this be handled? – BiscuitBoy Feb 16 '16 at 14:18
  • I chose to mark it as duplicate since a button was being displayed to me. I thought the answer of that question also answers my own question. Seems I was wrong. Sorry. – Parham Doustdar Feb 16 '16 at 16:37

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Transit hub or transport hub would fit the bill. Station is quite general (e.g. bus station but you're right in that it wouldn't suggest an airport).

A hub airport is something more specific - one which connects long- and short-distance flights.

The beginning/end of a route could be a terminus (mainly land-based transport). A connection between routes could be an interchange. The same hub could be both depending on the traveller's journey.

Chris H
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  • I was starting to create that same answer, when I saw the duplicate on the "RELATED" panel on the right of the page! – Graffito Feb 16 '16 at 12:33
  • @Graffito the mobile version of the site (which I was on a few minutes ago) doesn't give that panel. – Chris H Feb 16 '16 at 12:37
  • Hub seems to imply that the purpose for its existence is to exchange. "A transport hub (also transport interchange) is a place where passengers and cargo are exchanged between vehicles or between transport modes." Am I right? – Parham Doustdar Feb 16 '16 at 13:07
  • @ParhamDoustdar, you have to get to the station somehow, even if on foot. But no, altough a hub is a junction between routes, it's not only a junction between routes. – Chris H Feb 16 '16 at 15:01
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How about terminal?

station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods WordNet by Farlex

Elian
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If your application is using these entities only in the context of journeys, perhaps point of embarkation or point of origin may work.

Quoting http://www.travel-industry-dictionary.com/point-of-embarkation.html

point of embarkation, point of origin. Where a journey begins.

EDIT: update after comment ... http://www.thefreedictionary.com/disembarkation has an example

The company's 2003 revised Cruise Atlas, due out shortly, contains a listing of over two hundred approved embarkation and disembarkation ports, daily rates, plus complete terms and conditions of the program.

So, I guess one could say stations or airports are embarkation/disembarkation points.

k1eran
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