Dictionary

request stop en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A location at which public transport does not ordinarily stop, but will do so if specifically requested by a passenger.
   • Where else in the world can you pre-order sushi and fondue on some of the trains, travel in family carriages equipped with mini-playgrounds, or use a request stop button at some small stations? Where else can you hear the announcement: "The train at Platform 4 is ten minutes late due to an incident in another country," as I did once at the Swiss station of Spiez? 2025 October 15, Vitali Vitaliev, “The recipe for Swiss bliss”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 68:
   • To compound the misery, Penmaenmawr is a request stop with poor visibility, so to ensure the train stops we had to stand in drenching rain. 2019 October, Chris Stokes, “Between the Lines”, in Modern Railways, page 97:

Forms

Hyponyms

flag stop

Relateds

whistle-stop

Translations (13)

es parada discrecional (location at which public transport does not ordinarily stop, but will do so if specifically requested by a passenger) · cs zastávka na znamení (location at which public transport does not ordinarily stop, but will do so if specifically requested by a passenger) · cs zastávka na požádání (location at which public transport does not ordinarily stop, but will do so if specifically requested by a passenger) · cmn 招呼站 (location at which public transport does not ordinarily stop, but will do so if specifically requested by a passenger) · sk zastávka na znamenie (location at which public transport does not ordinarily stop, but will do so if specifically requested by a passenger) · nl stop op verzoek (location at which public transport does not ordinarily stop, but will do so if specifically requested by a passenger) · es parada a solicitud (location at which public transport does not ordinarily stop, but will do so if specifically requested by a passenger) · de Bedarfshalt (location at which public transport does not ordinarily stop, but will do so if specifically requested by a passenger) · hu feltételes megállóhely (location at which public transport does not ordinarily stop, but will do so if specifically requested by a passenger) · es parada facultativa (location at which public transport does not ordinarily stop, but will do so if specifically requested by a passenger) · et nõudepeatus (location at which public transport does not ordinarily stop, but will do so if specifically requested by a passenger) · pl przystanek na żądanie (location at which public transport does not ordinarily stop, but will do so if specifically requested by a passenger) · nl stop op afroep (location at which public transport does not ordinarily stop, but will do so if specifically requested by a passenger)