Railway station versus train station

[John H-T]

"I'm sitting in the railway station,
Got a ticket for my desination, ..........."

Paul Simon knew!!!!!

Best wishes,

John

[HelloControl]

An Americanism which has crept in over the years. They always refer to stations as train stations. It was quite nice for Simon and Garfunkel to sing about a "railway station" as opposed to "railroad" as they were in the UK at the time.
Another term which has crept in is the Forth Rail Bridge. The rail bridge was always referred to as plain Forth Bridge and the Forth Road Bridge was-well, the road bridge.

[jay]

Originally Posted by Articuno

Since I refuse to take buses, everyone knows what I mean by station! Haha!

Same here, I can't stand buses. I just take my bike instead of taking a bus. And as for taking a bus or a tram, well there's no contest is there?

[Iain63A]

The BBC must have a lot of American born program and news producers; almost all of the broadcast content seems to have a bias towards the American form and useage of language and words. This is slowly absorbed into everyday use in the UK. Bring back Macdonald Hobley and Sylvia Peters! To me (an old git), station means Railway Station; every other type of station has a qualifying word attached.

[swisstrains]

Originally Posted by Iain63A

The BBC must have a lot of American born program and news producers; almost all of the broadcast content seems to have a bias towards the American form and useage of language and words.......................................

I don't think they even necessarily have to be American born. It's probably because they are young and therefore more likely to have been influenced by all things American.
A similar thing shows up in soaps that have been written by younger scriptwriters when they have the elderly characters saying "cool", "big ask" and "no brainer" etc. etc.

[horace]

I seem to remember an old BR advert which suggested that we let the train take the strain.Perhaps this was the start of refering to the Railway as the train.

[Ian L Jamieson]

Just to complicate the matter further a correspondent on the Radio 3 forum told me yesterday that he heard a chap on his mobile phone on Stoke-on-Trent station say that he was 'at the train place.' Yep. We even get to talking railway matters on a music forum!

Ian J

[klordger1900]

Its Health & Safety in a politically correct sort of world.
Your sit or stand in a train you dont sit or stand on a railway.
Simples
meerkat.com and all that!

[reflector]

Originally Posted by klordger1900

Its Health & Safety in a politically correct sort of world.
Your sit or stand in a train you dont sit or stand on a railway.
Simples
meerkat.com and all that!

But what is the train on?

[klordger1900]

The train is running on mild steel rails supported in the main on rubber pads atop concrete sleepers and 38mm of ballast material for drainage set out on sharp sand and natural - probably a railroad!