It's called a railway station!!!

[wintonian]

And I suppose you don't travel on the train you travel in it. Nither do you take the train cause I suspect most TOC's would rather you left them where they are.

 

[ert47]

Train Station all the way! Railway Station has too many syllables

 

[Ivo]

I think we are begining to enter the realms of the pedantic!

A theoretical Aspie speciality
A theoretical teacher's speciality
A theoretical Ivo speciality

Train Station all the way! Railway Station has too many syllables

NO!!!!! RAIL(WAY) STATION!!!!!

And what's with your "Dislikes First" title? Is everyone copying my Anti-Arriva Man tag or something? How long has it been there? (If it's longer than about 200 days, I apologise. But I've only now noticed.)

This could get interesting if some senior jobsworth ever visits a railway open day and sees all those stalls selling thousands of used tickets to collectors...!!

I hope that isn't true of bus tickets. I've kept every one I've had since I moved to Bath, even one I accidentaly ripped in Exeter. I must have about 1,000 of the things. In less than a year!

 

[455driver]

If I want to catch a bus I go to the bus station,
If I want to catch a coach I go to a coach station,
If I want to catch a train I go to a railway? station,
but I dont want to catch a railway, I want to catch a train!


Have to agree though it is a RAILWAY station .

 

[Bittern]

Yeah, always Railway Station. Not Train Station, not Rail Station.

Passenger/Customer


Anyone care?

Yes. When I'm on public transport, I don't expect to be called a customer. Same as in a shop I don't expect to be called a passenger.

I call it train station, Its a station for trains, not rails, I find rail staion too much like railroad and thats american, im sure you hate me for it and im sorry but thats me

The ironic thing is "Train Station" is the American term.

 

[33056]

I think 'train station' could be more European than American

Which after studying the fact that America tend to call them railroad or rail stations, and the French translates to train station, was the conclusion I reached

But in German it is Bahnhof, bahn literally translates as "course", which is also the term used for the railway.

BTW, "train station" makes me cringe!

 

[networkrail1]

Station' is however commonly
understood to mean 'railway station'
or 'train station' unless otherwise
qualified. This is evident from
dictionary entries e.g. Fowler H W and
Fowler F G, The Concise Oxford
Dictionary, 9th ed., 1995, where the
primary meaning is given as "a regular
stopping place on a railway line..." and
'bus station' and 'coach station' have
separate entries under 'bus' and
'coach' respectively.

 

[jopsuk]

They run it, they'll call it what they damn well want...

 

[thefab444]

From my experience, "train station" is the more 'common' term, usually used by the younger generation; "railway station" is the more sophisticated term, usually used by the older generation. I'm not sure where MattE2010 got the French meaning to be "train station", from memory the French merely use "la gare" to mean a railway station e.g. literally just "the station", and "la gare routière" to mean a bus or coach station.

Personally it's "railway station", and as someone else said "train station" is cringeworthy, but there are more important things in life!

 

[Wyvern]

No but I did have a selection of old tickets confiscated once at Taunton.

I think it dates back to the beginning when passengers picked up a brass token on departure and handed it in on arrival:

 

[merlodlliw]

The buses leave Wrexham Bus Station every 12 minutes for Chester Railway Station so the destination board says.

However in this two language area, the Welsh version on the same bus,states
Chester train station.

Ah well, Arriva got one of them correct

Locally we say Wrexham General /Wrexham Central or the Bus Station.

 

[ert47]

Google says otherwise

And its the same on Google.co.uk :P

 

[Bittern]

Yeah but Google is an idiot.

See?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I would agree with Bittern - especially if you've tried to use Google Images after this morning...!!:roll:


( For those who don't know yet, it wasn't broken so they've fixed it..... )

 

[moggie]

'It's a Railway station ain't it' which is nowadys translated to 'it's a efin train station innit'

 

[mallard]

I much prefer the term "Railway Station", however the bus stop at my local Railway Station is termed "Train Station", so when I catch a bus to the Railway Station, I have to ask for a ticket to "Train Station"!

 

[Templecombe]

I Call it Train station

 

[Mojo]

My Mum once asked a taxi driver to take her to "the station" (this being in a town which at the time had only one railway station so there was no confusion). After a while she noticed he was going the wrong way and asked where he was going. He was driving her to the police station!

With regards to road station/bus station; roads also carry cars, taxis, pedestrians, bikes, horses, sedan chairs, etc., whereas the only type of vehicle used on the railway is a train, so you station yourself at a railway station to use the facilities of the railway; if I wish to use the the roads I do not have to station myself in one particular location. Employees of the railway can also be found stationed at a railway station, and bus employees may be found stationed at a bus station.

The police may be found at a police station, but fire isn't necessarily found at a fire station, and you do not only experience weather at a weather station! Similarly I do not wait at a taxi station if I want to hire a taxi.

 

[ert47]

The police may be found at a police station, but fire isn't necessarily found at a fire station, and you do not only experience weather at a weather station! Similarly I do not wait at a taxi station if I want to hire a taxi.

You dont call a home a Person Station, and a Fire Station is called a fire station because the people who work there are called Firemen - but by using that logic, wouldnt a train/railway station be called something totally different?

With regards to road station/bus station; roads also carry cars, taxis, pedestrians, bikes, horses, sedan chairs, etc., whereas the only type of vehicle used on the railway is a train, so you station yourself at a railway station to use the facilities of the railway; if I wish to use the the roads I do not have to station myself in one particular location. Employees of the railway can also be found stationed at a railway station, and bus employees may be found stationed at a bus station.

Does that mean that the only true Train Station are depots??? hock:

 

[YorkshireBear]

station on a railway....
station which trains pass through

call it either....

 

[90019]

You dont call a home a Person Station

Well, maybe you don't :P