What started this ridiculous craze for saying "train station" instead of "railway station"?

The expression "train station" is so infantile that I didn't even use it in 1966 (the year I started primary school), yet it is even being used by railwaymen this year. Why do you think that is?

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hunkalove · 70-79, M

I blame it on Boris Johnson. Dude doesn’t even know how to comb his hair.

NankerPhelge · 61-69, M

@hunkalove Who in the right mind would take any notice of that clueless ape?

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@hunkalove Nowt to to do with Boris Johnson, whatever you think of him!

It goes back before his time as PM; and it was Tony Blair who ordered the UK Treasury to use officially, the arithmetically and etymologically meaningless American definitions of "billion" and "trillion".

helenS · 36-40, F

@ArishMell Yes that causes a lot of confusion almost everywhere.

NankerPhelge · 61-69, M

@ArishMell I can well believe that about Tony Blair. Thanks for telling me that was who was responsible for that mathematical mess.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@NankerPhelge Well, it was already a mathematical mess, but Blair seemed to have disliked England and worshipped the USA anyway, so perhaps it's not surprising he foisted 10^9 and 19^12 incorrectly on us. Or perhaps he simply did not understand what the "bi" and "tri" syllables actually meant: [10^6]^2 and [10^6]^3.

NankerPhelge · 61-69, M

@ArishMell Why did Blair dislike England so much? Telling me that has lowered my opinion of him even further than before, and I've already hated him for nigh on 20 years.