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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Piper · 61-69, F

Saying "train station" could not reasonably be called a rididulous or infantile craze here in the USA, really. More people than not have been referring to the building by the train tracks where trains come and tickets are sold as a train station, since my earliest memories of being here.

NankerPhelge · 61-69, M

@Piper What about the hundreds of thousands of people who bought Simon and Garfunkel's "Homeward Bound" single (a top 10 hit in the States)? Every time those people played it they would hear "railway station" in the lyrics, not "train station".

ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M

@NankerPhelge No one actually cared what Paul Simon called it?

Piper · 61-69, F

@NankerPhelge What about that, exactly? Although I did not buy a "single" of that song, it is on at least one Simon and Garfunkel album I did buy and still have. Really good song, as are so very many they wrote and or released.
I think saying railway station is just fine, and just said that here, more people than not do actually say train station...and that it isn't any new kind of "craze". 😐