divisional point

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a place where a railway has its headquarters for a given administrative district, usually at the boundary of two such districts or divisions.

Quotations

1927

Setting Lake is now an important divisional point on the Hudson Bay railway. . . .

1958

As a sizeable railway divisional point a sizeable payroll is available and spent in the town's modern stores and other businesses.