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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smiler2012 · 61-69

{@nankerphelge] i call them railway stations but i can not see what he big deal is really what you call them

Nimbus · M

@smiler2012 Smiler, have you ever been lost in a Forest ?

Really · 80-89, M

@smiler2012 He probably calls the Glenfinnan viaduct the Harry Potter bridge.

NankerPhelge · 61-69, M

@Nimbus Have you ever been lost in the deep thundermould of the complicaden forry?