If I had the money and could move back to the UK.......

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[melmerby]

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"

 

 

[johnofwessex]

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

 

 

[Ozexpatriate]

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

[AndyID]

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.

[AndyID]

And back on topic I probably could move back to the UK but only if something could be done about the horrible weather