From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishstaging postˈstaging post noun [countable] TTa place where people, planes, ships etc stop on a long journey, for example to rest or get supplies a staging post on the flight from Australia
Examples from the Corpus
staging post• The new charters were to be a staging post.• Not much of any importance until it became a staging post on the London to Brighton turnpike in the eighteenth.• Remember that Earth is just a staging post along the way.• This was, I kept telling myself, just a staging post.• Certainly Snaith Priory was a staging post for pilgrims travelling from Lincoln to York, as recorded on the altar kneelers.• The city of Mondovi was a main staging post on the road to Genoa.• They are the vital staging post for millions of birds migrating between Siberia and Australasia. 