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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Really · 80-89, M

My dad was a railwayman himself between 1950 and 1994, and he never said "train station"

My mother cooked meals for 70+ years and never said 'hamburger'. Somehow I don't think that's significant today :).

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Really "Hamburger" won't count because that is something named in its native country. Just as with words like "bungalow" and "pasta", albeit the former Anglicised.

Unlike "train station", a phrase coined in a country that did not invent the railways! (They like to do that: adopt inventions from elsewhere but change the terminology to disguise the fact!)

Really · 80-89, M

@ArishMell This is a VERY silly thread and neither you nor I is helping.
Please don't suggest that 'is helping' should be 'are', or 'am', helping !

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Really LOL!

If I type anything fairly long I spend nearly as much time correcting clumsy typing errors as I do putting the words down in the first place...