Train Station or Railway Station?

[Trog]

Always take it to be railway station in the UK and train station in the US. Sure someone will comment that we say bus station and not something else...

Sounds right to me...


I think the reference before station is more about who is using the station.

Naval Station where the Navy bases its ships.
Bus Station where the Bus company bases its Buses.
Police Satation where the Police Force bases its constables.
Railway Station where the Railway Company bases its trains.
Fire Station where the Fire Service bases its appliances.

 

[Ivo]

Sounds right to me...


I think the reference before station is more about who is using the station.

Naval Station where the Navy bases its ships.
Bus Station where the Bus company bases its Buses.
Police Satation where the Police Force bases its constables.
Railway Station where the Railway Company bases its trains.
Fire Station where the Fire Service bases its appliances.

And then "work station" where the companies bases its work force? Hmm... maybe not

 

[Minilad]

What about babe station then !!

Not that I watch it of course, just saw it in the paper

 

[Eagle]

Not that I watch it of course, just saw it in the paper

One of those papers you read with one hand?

 

[12CSVT]

'Railway Station' for me. Always has been and always will be.

 

[Ivo]

What about babe station then !!

Not that I watch it of course, just saw it in the paper

If it wasn't for having found that by sheer accident one time about five years ago (trying random combinations on the Sky remote out of boredom) I wouldn't even know what you meant hock:

 

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If it wasn't for having found that by sheer accident one time about five years ago (trying random combinations on the Sky remote out of boredom) I wouldn't even know what you meant hock:

A likely excuse

Sounds right to me...


I think the reference before station is more about who is using the station.

Naval Station where the Navy bases its ships.
Bus Station where the Bus company bases its Buses.
Police Satation where the Police Force bases its constables.
Railway Station where the Railway Company bases its trains.
Fire Station where the Fire Service bases its appliances.

To be fair Id say Naval Base - given that some of them share both ships and boats in the same yard.

What about times when police stations are unmanned? Are they still called that even though no police are based there?

Also I wouldnt say a Railway station is where TOCs base their trains as they are only in and out quickly with them spending most of their time on route or in the depot

 

[Michael.Y]

Railway station. Railway has more oomph and gravitas than Train. I also don't like it in TOC names... Compare Virgin Trains with Chiltern Railways... East Midlands Trains compared with Great North Eastern Railway...

 

[Badger]

I prefer Railway Station to Train Station, but am fine with either; the one I really don't want to see is "Railroad"..

 

[Eagle]

Railway station. Railway has more oomph and gravitas than Train. I also don't like it in TOC names... Compare Virgin Trains with Chiltern Railways... East Midlands Trains compared with Great North Eastern Railway...

Yes, but they're train operating companies, that is they only run the trains and not the railways. So East Midlands Trains is exactly accurate, whereas Northern Rail suggests a level of control over the railway that doesn't exist.

 

[90019]

I was going to say I don't mind either railway station or train station, but it appears I've stumbled into pedant corner by accident.

 

[table38]

I was going to say I don't mind either railway station or train station, but it appears I've stumbled into pedant corner by accident.

Surely pedant's corner as the corner itself wouldn't be pedantic

(Said a pedant)

 

[Eagle]

Surely pedant's corner as the corner itself wouldn't be pedantic

(Said a pedant)

*bangs head on table*

Pedants' corner. Plural. I hate people who can't use apostrophes properly. (Pedant corner would also be correct, though. It's a compound noun, like train station.)

 

[table38]

*bangs head on table*

Pedants' corner. Plural. I hate people who can't use apostrophes properly. (Pedant corner would also be correct, though. It's a compound noun, like train station.)

I was thinking of it in a more posessive way, ie. the corner belonging to the pedants.

 

[Eagle]

I was thinking of it in a more posessive way, ie. the corner belonging to the pedants.

Yes. And the possessive of pedants is pedants'. What did they teach you at school?

 

[table38]

What's the posessive of a single pedant?

(this could probably go on for a while )

 

[Eagle]

What's the posessive of a single pedant?

(this could probably go on for a while )

Pedant's.

And that concludes my involvement with Key Stage 1 English tuition.

 

[Nym]

Now now children; behave!

It is the corner of pedantry, let us just leave it at that!

 

[Eagle]

Now now children, behave!

It is the corner of pedantry, lets just leave it at that!

Let's. :P

 

[table38]

So how would you describe a corner occupied by a single pedant?

 

[Eagle]

So how would you describe a corner occupied by a single pedant?

A pedant's corner.

 

[table38]

Well that was fun

(probably spent too much of my life reading Pedantry Corner in Private Eye )

 

[90019]

It's irrelevant anyway, as it was a reference to number corner.

 

[Eagle]

It's irrelevant anyway, as it was a reference to number corner.

One time I ate eighteen cakes.

 

[12CSVT]

the one I really don't want to see is "Railroad"..

Unfortuately that one has been forced upon us for several years by a well known Mr. Harry Needle

 

[Crossover]

Railway station. Railway has more oomph and gravitas than Train. I also don't like it in TOC names... Compare Virgin Trains with Chiltern Railways... East Midlands Trains compared with Great North Eastern Railway...

Arriva Trains Wales

 

[Michael.Y]

Arriva Trains Wales

Ahem. Thought I'd leave my employers out of it

Although renaming it "Rheilffordd Arriva Railways" would sort out the stupid situation of the word Arriva appearing twice in the logo.

Yes, but they're train operating companies, that is they only run the trains and not the railways. So East Midlands Trains is exactly accurate, whereas Northern Rail suggests a level of control over the railway that doesn't exist.

Absolutely, but it's all about semantics, semiotics and aesthetics. I like to consider the machine and the track as one single entity - one can't exist without the other - the train can't run without tracks, and without a train to run on it, the track serves no other purpose. OK - in this post-privatisation world two separate legal entities may look after the two sides of the coin, but in the end, they're two halves of a whole.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

So how would you describe a corner occupied by a single pedant?

I am a married pedant and I "know my place in the corner" if I should ever upset "she who must be obeyed"...

 

[Trog]

Yes. And the possessive of pedants is pedants'. What did they teach you at school?

That Which Tyler led the Pedants’ revolt.

 

[43021HST]

Here's a little fact:
The term aerodrome was taken out of the dictionary a little while ago.
I wonder whether people were having this debate about aerodrome and airport about 50 years ago.

I dont mind train station, (prefer to use railway station) but I cant stand it when people say train tracks, it sounds so juvenile.