“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't simply borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down dark alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for spare vocabulary.” - James D. Nicoll
Quite simply, this is an utterly pointless argument. People will call stations what they wish, and the "right" way to do it is simply whatever people use. English does not have some central prescriptive body like the French use to try (and fail) to contol the evolution of the language. English is purely and simply whatever the English speaking people make of it.
What's actually more interesting is the point at which the word station becomes extraneous. Most of the London termini are more easily referred to without it - only Marylebone station is commonly referred to with the identifier.
Some others (Manchester Victoria, Manchester Picadilly, Bradford Interchange, Wakefield Westgate, Wakefield Kirkgate, Bristol Temple Meads, Exeter St Davids) get the treatment because their names are actually used on the system & timetables, but there are some that have names without them being used - the strongest one of all to my memory being London Road in Leicester, even though it officially lost that name in the 70s.
. Kinda similar to using the word "Tube" to mean all LUL services even though technically the sub-surface lines aren't tube lines. Or thinking a bus garage and bus station mean the same thing.
