säckstation

Compound of säck (“sack; bag”) +‎ station (“station”). First attested in 1899. Cognate with German Sackbahnhof and Norwegian sekkestasjon.

säckstation c

1. A terminus, a terminal; a type of train station without any thoroughfare, where the railroad tracks stop (although not necessarily the final stop of the line).

• Only used in a concrete sense about the station structure itself. The end of a line is called slutstation or ändstation.
• Depending on strictness; a station with thoroughfare can still be considered a säckstation if the continuing tracks only let the train turn around, or are under construction or maintenance, or if only freight trains pass through.

• slutstation (“end of line, endstation”)
• ändstation (“end of line, endstation”)
• säckspår (“track without throughfare”)

• säckstation in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)