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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution
2: the end of the completed track on an unfinished railway

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1896 a point on a railroad at which traffic may originate or terminate

U.S. Military Dictionary

A point on a railway where loads are transferred between trains and other means of transport. (JP 4-09)

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the farthest point reached by a railway under construction. 2 the point on a railway at which road transport of goods begins.