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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badminton · 61-69, MVIP

In my grandparents day they said Train depot.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@badminton Wonderful old painting with its perspective exaggerated for effect, typical of what looks like a 1930s railway advertising poster. Was it?

Lebensville - that is a very Germanic name. I wonder if there is such a place, and if it still has a station.

badminton · 61-69, MVIP

@ArishMell That painting is by Murad Sayen, an American artist, born 1945.

NankerPhelge · 61-69, M

@badminton A depot isn't the same thing as a station. Try to bear in mind that my late father used to work on the railways and he knew all the terminology.

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