forwarding station

A relay league is a chain of message forwarding stations in a system of optical telegraphs, radio telegraph stations, or riding couriers.

The Al Hidd distillate forwarding station provides 410 million liters of distillate water storage in a series of 45-million-liter steel tanks.

A 19th century "canal economy" of forwarding stations, grist mills, stores, hotels and taverns sprang up along the routes that crisscrossed the Middle Atlantic and Great Lakes States.