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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Unquestioned · 70-79, M

The railway workers and the bus workers, had a trivia competition. The railway workers lost, if the bus workers had lost, their depots would now be called ''roadway stations''.