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RMweb Premium melmerby Posted October 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 25, 2020 9 hours ago, AndyID said: Here you go "Looking at the etymology, the Oxford English Dictionary cites British newspapers using "train station" in 1845 and 1856. And in 1825 the engineer Thomas Tredgold published A Practical Treatise on Railroads and Carriages, while in 1837 the Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal wrote about a "rail-road station". Nowadays that term would definitely be considered an Americanism and yet it appears to have been in common usage in Britain - the OED has numerous other citations." https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/collegeofjournalism/entries/1cbca265-2424-320c-b032-6e6f7974e221 Quite. Railroads, Railways, Tramways, Tramroads, Waggonways. All these terms (and more) were used for early UK railways. A Tramway these days is something somewhat different. The term Railroad in N. America is far from universal, although it is the Federal Government's description of them. BNSF, KCS & NS are railways as are CN & CP CSX is a transportation corporation. UP classes itself as a Railroad. If you go back a few years you wont references to "Train Stations" in the US, they were "Depots" 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnofwessex Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 On 24/10/2020 at 17:06, Sir TophamHatt said: What do you call the starting terminals of buses, usually found in City Centres or where you can catch National Express buses from? Something like this: Although if you catch a bus from a "bus stop" then surely "train station" should be acceptable too as you go there to catch a train. You don't go to a railway station to catch a railway What you are looking at funnily enough is the ruination of a perfectly decent Power Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_power_station Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 (edited) On 23/10/2020 at 09:11, Steamport Southport said: Bus station is yet another Americanism. In my 34 years in the US I've never heard the term "bus station" used by a person in the US. If Googled, yes, I can find it. "Greyhound terminal" yes, "bus depot" yes, "bus stop", yes. Interestingly the "bus station" Wikipedia page leads to this, but there isn't a single US example. Edited October 29, 2020 by Ozexpatriate 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 59 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said: In my 34 years in the US I've never heard the term "bus station" used by a person in the US. If Googled, yes, I can find it. "Greyhound terminal" yes, "bus depot" yes, "bus stop", yes. Interestingly the "bus station" Wikipedia page leads to this, but there isn't a single US example. That's just another example of how some "English" speakers prefer that their language becomes defunct. English is spoken by far more people than there are in England. I could go on about French but I better not. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 And back on topic I probably could move back to the UK but only if something could be done about the horrible weather Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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