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

@LeopoldBloom My dad was a railwayman himself between 1950 and 1994, and he never said "train station". I bet he would say it was infantile if he was still alive today (he died in 2004).

@NankerPhelge I wonder if it's a Britishism. Here in the U.S., I've always heard "train station." "Railway station" sounds pretentious.

@LeopoldBloom So you think Simon and Garfunkel sound pretentious?
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I don't know anyone else who would agree with you on that one.

@NankerPhelge They would sound pretentious today, over half a century later. Language changes. Back then, if a woman was pregnant, people said she was "expecting." That would sound weird today too.

But feel free to carry on. I'm sure all the cool cats are hep to your bop lingo and the dames are all back at your pad. Peace, man.

@LeopoldBloom Language seldom, if ever, changes for the better. It's like everything else. Change doesn't do people any favours.

@NankerPhelge I don't put a value on language changing unless it obfuscates meaning. For example, "unique" means "one of a kind." So something can't be "very unique" because it's either unique or it isn't. But people say "very unique" when they mean "unusual." So when "unique" is used correctly, people might misunderstand it. Same with stupid words like "firstables" or "irregardless."

As for "train" vs. "railway," who cares. The train is the thing that goes on the railway, but both are in the station so I don't see this change as being significant.