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unusual facts about station agent


Station agent

Stock and station agent, who provides a support service to the agricultural community, particularly in Australia and New Zealand.


Laws, California

A station agent's home is located south of the railroad station.

Oliver Barrett House

His son Ezra Lathrop Barrett, known professionally as E. Lathrop Barrett, became the railroad's station agent, a job complementary to his father's.


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Dirranbandi, Queensland

He is best known for playing Alf Stewart on soap opera Home and Away, and credits one of his character's catchphrases "Stone the flamin' crows!" to a man who was a stock and station agent in town.

John H. Merrifield

He also operated a general merchandise store for several years, and later worked as Station Agent for the Vermont line of the B & W Railroad.

William H. Hinrichsen

Graduating in 1870, he took a job as a station agent for the Northern Cross Railroad in Alexander.

Wolsey, South Dakota

Richard Warren Sears, founder of Sears, Roebuck, and Co, began his retail sales career by selling unclaimed watches while serving as a station agent for the railroad in Wolsey in the early 1880s.