Platform, clock tower, sometimes a bench out front — a train station building rather than any train sitting inside it. It marks the place a journey starts or ends, departures and arrivals both, and gets borrowed loosely for any stop along the way that isn't quite the final destination.
What 🚉 means
An oncoming train with a rectangular windshield, lined by a couple of headlights, staying put at the railway station with visible tracks, a railway platform, and a pole with some information written on it at the side.
The 🚉 Station emoji refers to a railway station. It signifies waiting (for the train or someone), the act of being stationary or stationed, if you may, loading, unloading, boarding, and alighting too.
How and when to use it
- If you're texting someone that you're at the station or will be at the station, use 🚉. For example, "Meet you at 3 PM 🚉".
- 🚉 eases out the act of typing out the words 'railway station'. Just by dropping in this emoji into any given context, you could immediately imply to a railway station.
- Use 🚉 while posting or reposting informative content about railway stations; it can be a news post, a COVID-19 awareness post, etc.
- While telling someone or posting a social media story about picking up someone from the train station, you can use 🚉. Like, "Finally! 6 months later, I finally get to see her! On my way to get her!🚉"
- If you're new to a city and one of the railway stations catches your attention for aesthetic reasons and you're sharing pictures of the same either as a direct message (DM) or as a social media post, use 🚉.
Other Names
- 🚉 Railway Station
- 🚉 Train Station
- 🚉 Train Depot
- 🚉 Railroad Terminal
- 🚉 Railroad Station
- 🚉 Terminal
- 🚉 Depot
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › transport-ground
- Codepoints
U+1F689- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:station:- Keywords
- railway, station, train
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🚉 Station or 🇧🇼 Flag: Botswana?